With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian: "And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations."