Facebook

[poliphilo]

I understand Facebook is losing adherents in the USA and the UK. I'm not particularly surprised. It was a fad- like Hula Hoops. 

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And why not? Why can't people be satisfied with having created something that is socially useful? Why do they always have to milk it for cash.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Well, it does cost money to offer the service, so the company who hosts it has to make money somehow, and that's fair enough. But it's when they want to make big profits that it all goes wrong.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're a greedy lot.....

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

It's mostly an American phenomenon. We don't have a way to recognize and glorify people who don't have lots of money. If you're not rich, you're shit and your work is shit, forget how good or useful it really is. You'll be spat on by some Persian with a chain of carpet stores and a pile of cash looted from the old Pahlavi regime.

It's not a great way to run a society, but so it goes.