Greetings fellow philosophers. Today I feel slightly vindicated by, ironically enough, Forbes, the magazine of capitalism. You probably remember my rant a few months ago against Facebook. The latest issue of Forbes Magazine has an article by Kym McNicholas: "Ten Reasons Not to Invest in Facebook."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kymmcnicholas/2012/02/01/ten-reasons-not-to-invest-in-facebook/2/
Many of them are the same reasons I had for criticizing Facebook. Ok, most of Forbes' reasons are about why you might not make any money off of it, but at least one reason they gave is that Facebook is useless, it really doesn't do anything new and good, and in fact makes you do bad, stupid things. I already said that, and I also pointed out that you can do better social networking by creating your own blogs and websites, have complete control of your own content and make it look the way you want it to look and do what you want it to do. Also, if you want advertising on your own blog or website, you get paid for your own content. On Facebook, they get paid for your content but you don't see a dime of that.
Ok, 'nuff negativity, here's the positive side of social networking. Two of my talented siblings, Christopher K. Moon, photographer, and Carol Louise Moon, poet, have posted their work on the net. Check it out, friends.
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