Camden Kiwi (Cathryn Symons) has a well-thought out post about Facebook. Some people these days have the opinion that Facebook is evil — a cynical capitalist tool for controlling consumers. Cathryn puts forward a more reasonable view in Is Facebook Evil?:

The fear is that sites like Facebook are somehow replacing the ‘real’ world with a virtual world in which mega-capitalism controls everything.

Do they replace the real world, or do they enhance it? Surely, that depends on how you use them. If all your friends are on Facebook, and your main way of interacting with them is via Facebook then you would have a big problem. But if you use it, as most people seem to, as just another tool, then it is hardly such an issue.

The whole post deserves a read: Is Facebook Evil?.

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