Is facebook camouflaged as a trap?

 Facebook has the worlds largest database on people and their personal information. In a way, it's kind of like a river. A seemingly never-ending friendship river that sucks anyone in who joins, and thrusts them into the rip current that exposes them to a world of 'friends'. You feel accepted in this friendship river. You can post what your feeling, chat with your 'friends', find old classmates and talk with people you thought you might never have heard from again, etc. You can digitally profile yourself and create your online counterpart.

But once you choose to deactivate, it can be seen (by some) as a fight against the current – a dissent. This aspect of facebook has been a major contributor to the sites success – the fear of missing out and losing contact with your 'friends'. It's a reason that fuels the compulsion to keep using facebook.

Almost everyone's on there, so why not join. It's FREE!

People can be naïve. Are we but sheep moving in flocks?

Arguably, facebook seems to have morphed into a data-mining site for modern capitalist's and corporatist political systems. Advertisers have struck a gold-mine and the C.I.A use it as a 'spying machine' which makes their surveillance and covert information gathering a lot easier. This paves the way for some serious privacy issues.