My issue with your response to Hodgkinson’s Facebook piece was that you basically argued that what’s good about Facebook (its vast reach) outweighs genuinely alarming concerns of privacy, identity, and surveillance. Yes, there’s truth in what you say, but that doesn’t negate the legitimacy of Hodgkinson’s (and others’) critique.

There was a far more eloquent argument against Facebook posted over here:

http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=500

I think Dominic does a fine job of arguing that Facebook is basically Internet For Dummies: a digital catch-all for folks who can’t be bothered by e-mail, bulletin boards, or finding independent blog hosting. Which, strictly speaking, isn’t Facebook’s fault. At the risk of being unpopular, I blame the public – or at least the kind of gumptionless rubes who play “Guitar Hero” ‘cuz they can’t be bothered to practice on the guitar collecting dust in the closet.