People Without Facebook Accounts Are Deemed 'Suspicious' -- Forbes

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Well, like AOL wanted

They do seem quite eager to share their wealth of user data with the highest bidding entities while they still have it.

But my real problem with Facebook is how it's set up... consider the fact that Facebook and Twitter pages are now both hidden from nonsubscribers, creating a subscriber-model Internet, like the days of Prodigy and Compuserve, but minus the original content and sense of community.

Social networks as they are presently set up (according to critics like the film The Social Network, explicitly to cater to the enemy, i.e. those horrible cliquish people you tried to get away from in college) are in fact anti-community... since they seem to be geared to broadcasting as much info as possible about the user while limiting social interaction to "friends" creating a shallow society of spectacle.