Can You Live Without It?

In a world of selfie-snapping saturation we observe with some amusement the recent outrage over Facebook’s exploitation of personal information. If a person stood in the public square shouting details of his last restaurant meal to passersby and then took umbrage when his listeners repeated his dining preferences, we would consider the speaker a fool or a madman. Why is this conclusion any different from those social media sociopaths who share their most intimate life details on the internet? The expectation of privacy from those who engage in a public forum is absurd, and is yet another example of the growing idiocy promoted by the purveyors of perfidy. The fact that relatively few addicts seem to have been capable of quitting Facebook after the privacy scandal broke is yet another indication that the use of this digital drug is the ultimate opioid crisis.