Facebook has always seemed a mystery to me. Perhaps I was not of the generation that might make good use of its 'innovations' but I feat the whole foundation is weak, as recent revelations make obvious. Having found a way to connect my blogs with Facebook and Twitter, albeit mechanically, I was indifferently a part of the fuss. But as someone with few friends, then suddenly with 800 friends, with none of whom I could make any connection or friendship the whole game struck me as a delusive farce. That FB is pernicious and egregiously the kind of sucker bait that has probably misformed these artifices of capitalism, seems clear over time. Still, some more find some kind of real connection to these softwares, but I fear that they were capitalist cons from the start. Twitter is slightly different, so who knows. But it seems to me that the equivalent taken in good faith could actually produce a result located in reality than in the false pretenses of Facebook. Since Zuckerberg ripped off the software to start it seems the whole game was cursed from the start. It seems that anyone with half a brain could have produced something better than this mishmash.

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