On the Virtues of Facebook

[LanternWaste]

20. I don't particularly like nor dislike Facebook, much as I neither like nor dislike a hammer...

I don't particularly like nor dislike Facebook, much as I neither like nor dislike a hammer or a television. It is, as most things are, an additional tool we use to best effect in ways that suit us as individuals (much like Democratic Underground).

I use Facebook, but will never offend it or defend it from its critics or its cheerleaders; however your post was certainly (to me, anyways) a most objective analysis of it en toto. It's one of many communication tools out there, and we choose to use them or not depending on our own set circumstances, and to a much greater extent (unfortunately) our biases regarding common and popular cultures.

So if someone calls me a pod-person because I use Facebook, tells me I'm supporting global inequality, or even that it's "the best thing ever", I simply imagine myself patting them on the head and saying "well, bless your little heart, aren't you so adorable..."