what Facebook is for

I’m never sure why people think Facebook is a good medium for heated philosophical debate. I’m even less sure why someone would forget that I’m on their friends list and engage in a multi-dozen wall post assault on my philosophical position. And finally, I’m completely unsure why such a person would unfriend me simply because I discover the posts and go there to defend myself from a rather confusing and muddy list of charges (quite politely, I thought). How disappointing. I thought he was a nice guy.

Here’s what I think Facebook is for: light social banter and keeping many dozens of acquaintances of varying levels of closeness informed as to basic personal news. And yet I still get other people popping in now and then to take shots at object-oriented philosophy in front of various cousins and high school acquaintances of mine. Seems self-evident to me that this is a social misstep.

Actually, Facebook’s privacy violations are so maddening that I wouldn’t even have rejoined, if not for the need to keep posted on events during the Egyptian Revolution last year. (But by the way, why are we still calling it a Revolution? Omar bleeping Suleiman is running for President now.)