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11 Mar 2009 01:37

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Politics, Tech: The Weekly Standard piles on the Facebook hate, big time

  • I will never, ever join Facebook, the omnipresent online social-networking site that like so many things that have menaced our country (the Unabomber, Love Story, David Gergen) came to us from Harvard but has now worked its insidious hooks into every crevice of society.
  • Matt Labash • Senior editor of The Weekly Standard, in an article criticizing the site due to its sheer size, impersonality, mundanity and the way that it takes intrigue away from personal relationships. Yeah, so? It’s because we want our friends to know we’re watching “Gossip Girl.” Labash wrote this just in time for Facebook’s soon-to-launch redesign, by the way. • source