Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you'll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
Leif Harmsen, once a Facebook user, now crusades against it. Having dismissed his mother's snap judgment of the site ('Facebook is the devil'), Harmsen now passionately agrees. He says, not entirely in jest, that he considers it a repressive regime akin to North Korea, and sells T-shirts with the words 'Shut Your Facebook.' What especially galls him is the commercialization and corporate regulation of personal and social life. As Facebook endeavors to be the Web's headquarters - to compete with Google, in other words, and to make money from the information it gathers - it's inevitable that some people would come to view it as Big Brother.
'The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook - and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent - the more Facebook can and does abuse us,' Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. 'It is not 'your' Facebook profile. It is Facebook's profile about you.'
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