Facebook's end game is to create the perfect advertisement: a targeted ad that you do -in fact- like, or an ad so indistinguishable from other content that you don't notice it is an ad. I'm hardly the tinfoil hat-type, but are you telling me this hasn't crossed your mind?

Do you at any point in this conversation see me actually disagreeing with the potential of Facebook to do negative things? No, in fact I state that I think there's validity to your argument - but not your points.

You can't cry foul (or "tangent", as it were) when the "topic" you staked out was beside the point in the first place.

Yes, I can. We had established a back and forth about a discussion and topic. In my response to the article, I was not establishing a back-and-forth with the author of the article about what he'd written. Your side did not go well in the discussion so you began to jump around in an attempt to shore up your argument. I pointed this out. You didn't like it.

It's an online forum, not a 5th-grade English paper. There are no points awarded for hewing close to some dismal little thesis.

You're right, but there are points for being able to communicate and be comprehensible.

Clearly you've never spent time around teenagers.

Yes, I never was one, either.

Thanks for the heat!