Lying In Bed, Together

FOR THOSE OF US pissed off at Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, whatever that is, and the whole corporate world of Trump, Bannon, and exploitation, that's all well and good. but bear in mind: we made our own bed, and now we're lying in it. We joined Facebook, and we provided, without gun to head, all this personal information we're so upset about, now that Facebook has sold it to the wrong people. Our vanity, lust for attention, narcissism, and a few other unfortunate personal traits, did us in. If we didn't know it when we joined, surely we know it now: we are not Facebook "customers", or "clients". No, far from mit. We are, dear comrads, Facebook merchandise. how do you think Zuckerberg managed to make billions, without charging anything to join Facebook? By gathering, organizing, and selling a much personal information as possible about you,and selling it to any and all buyers, usually corporations. that's their business plan, and it works like a charm for all concerned, including you. So what, that we all receive an endless supply of advertising specifically targeted to us, individually, based on our self proclaimed interests, habit, and life style. isn't that better than being subjected to an eternal blitz of generic, irrelevant and for which we have no interest? Are we willing to start paying for membership in Facebook? I didn't think so. Unless there emerges a fundamental new business plan, advertising is going to make Mark his trillions, and we are going to remain the merchandise being advertised, our information dangled temptingly by Zuckerberg and his crew to big businesses, and presidential campaigns willing to pay the price to find out enough about us to target their brainwashing of us at us like a pencil thin lasar beam.