internet visionaries

i've considered deleting my facebook account and come to these conclusions.

i'm irked by facebook being vilified. facebook isn't the man. i think there are more important "the man" 's to rebel against besides facebook. why delete it, conspiracies about your personal/privacy issues/information aside? conspiracies are fun but the common thread with ALL of them is that you can't prove or disprove them. i'ma say facebook, it's a tool like any other tool, one that possibly makes communication easier.

yes, of course it can be used by narcissists to make a virtual altar to themselves and plead that people pray at steps. we can waste a lot of time. but that's those people. use it within reasonable means, whatever that is to you, and accept your own limitations. if you feel the need to cut it out of your life altogether, by all means do so. but frame it as you overcoming your own personal weakness or gaining your security back, not as some noble act that makes you less narcissistic than everyone who did not. i use facebook for lots of sweet things.

my tangent rant would be about how people have a wrench in their gears and look to something like facebook to blame. but i'm ranted out for a while.