COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Facebook’s war on free
will
You forgot Facebook's war on intelligence and decency.
What a horrible site it is, manipulating and cheating its
users every step of the way.
Packed with snares to extract information every time you
click anything. The questions popping up in boxes are so clearly calculated not
to let people answer the way they might want to, to force them into unwanted
choices.
The site also has been caught cheating numerous times, as
with phony trending news stories and phony, purchased "likes."
And the truth is, it is just an ugly thing.
I do not understand why people use it, except they want
"one stop shopping," so to speak.
There are so many ways to do things on the Internet, Facebook
is just a waste.
A good example is when looking for a new restaurant. If a
restaurant has its own little site, you will be able to find it quickly with a
search engine and the owners will have a showcase, often quite attractive, to
give you a quick idea of what to expect, as a few photos and a menu.
Restaurants which only use Facebook unwittingly create an
unpleasant experience for would-be customers. First, many will be greeted by
one of Facebook's snares before they are even able to look. Very off-putting.
Second, the actual structure of Facebook sites is ugly and
inflexible (compared to your own site).
I think people only turn to it out of laziness since it is a
kind of internet within the Internet, a single site whose name has become a
household word.
