You're right, some of them are merely misogynistic, homophobic, narcissistic dorks who learned social skills from WoW, and who talk trash about their girlfriends behind their backs. (I have witnessed this.)

I summarily summarize this as an exercise in douchedom by dumb policemen.

They keep trying to force nerds to be social and make them feel coddled and cool. I would be willing to bet money that any code or other intellectual property that is produced in "hacker spaces" and such is owned by the people who built the space, not the coders. Read the fine print -- you may be getting conned.

Doesn't anybody screen these posts? 10 billion euros is more like 14 billion dollars. Why would anyone try to create a human mind when we don't even understand it yet? The reasoning is simplistic to say the least.

Good on you for not being a member. I'm the same way. I like self-presentation, but I see no reason to do it through any service that betrays me and claims ownership over my data. I would go one step further and say it is unethical to join up with these services, because it encourages others to do so.

How would you know if they're not objecting? The mass media serve the corporate interest, not the interests of the Common Man.

Facebook's motto seems to be Let's Be Evil. Time after time, what they do is really not friendly, not nice, not fair, not good. It's evil and based on my experiences with them, I'd say they like it that way.