Response to Facebook

I wish the Facebook article had been broken into different articles: one rant about the neocon money & politics behind the scenes, and one about the data-mining and advertising connection. Hodgkinson has a couple different arguments going on, and the visceral nature of his anger in the first part kind of turned me off. For the author, or editors, to make the gaffe about the CIA & Sept. 11 also weakens the overall article. I wondered who the author was and whether he was a regular columnist or not. I did find the section on data-mining and us becoming shills for advertisers to our friends pretty interesting. Oh yes, read your privacy policies. But who really does?