Why I Didn't Join Facebook

ACTUALLY, I DID JOIN FACEBOOK. But only for the purpose of trying to promote this irreplaceable website. I got a Facebook page, and I typed in the name of this website . Aint that clever? Thought it wouldn't hurt to try. But that's it, that's all I did. I never post anything on Facebook, nor log on to it, nor anything else on Facebook. I'm not even sure what Facebook is. What, you sign up, fill out a profile, telling as much about yourself as you choose or don't choose, then, you can do back to your Facebook page anytime you want, and read messages from others, and send messages to others...or something like that, am I right? Hell, I don't know. But one thing I DO know, fo sho. I know that if I sign up for Facebook and do all the above, I am not becoming or being a "customer" of Facebook. A customer is someone who pays for a commodity, good, or service, and Facebook is free. Facebook customers are huge corporations which purchase advertising on Facebook, and construct and direct that advertising directly at Facebook members, using information from their profiles, information which members voluntarily provided to the world, thus turning themselves into perfectly marketable commodities for Facebook, at no cost to Facebook, and advertising targets for members of the corporate oligarchy. What am I, if I sign up for Facebook? Why, make no mistake about it: I am the commodity. I am the product. I am that which is being sold by Facebook as a service to Facebook's customers, who, as you might recall, are large corporations, generally, who wish to purchase advertising on the world's most popular social media website. It must be terribly expensive to advertise on Facebook, but that's another topic. And, frankly, I simply don't have the stomach, or lack of self respect, or whatever it takes, to voluntarily turn myself into somebody else's sellable commodity. But, many many people do, or so it would seem, judging from Facebook membership. Happy posting!