I don't get why facebook privacy is blown up and discussed as much as it is. It's a private service. If you discover a service doesn't meet your expectations for whatever reason, discontinue using it.

It's a private service, not government supplied. If you do not agree with it's terms of service, then by all means DON'T USE IT! If you didn't bother to read the terms and signed up anyway because everyone else is, then you live with the consequences.

You really don't have to be on facebook... If enough of a consumer base disagree with the practices, a competitor will emerge and users can be divided amongst the various social network websites.

That being said, I do believe that Facebook has to have a reasonable method of informing it's membership to changes of terms of service... but I believe in most cases this has been done. It's just this particular user base (wahhh privacy wahhh) ignored the change and kept using it while whining about it, or didn't bother to keep themselves informed.

Tony Robbin's was pretty big into NLP, and still uses a lot of the same techniques/concepts.

I love it, thank you.

I'll bite on that... I'd say that the type of people you speak of have ALWAYS been around by the droves. Throughout every stage of history there's always been "the masses" and then those who rose above them. People have always been this way en-masse. Spectators, that at their very best will criticize others but fail to do anything about it themselves. The peasants of old are now the middle-class society with their televisions and ideas, but with the exactly same *lack* of traction for themselves or their own ideals.

Actually they already have something very similar, it's called an Arts degree.

Because they figure they can make a buck.

So you're advocating not keeping in touch with friends and family via e-mail?

Or what about checking the wikipedia page for the city you're about to dock into? Perhaps a safety-traveling guide for the region?

I appreciate immersion as much as the other, but you're looking at "the internet" as being a form of escape from reality, which isn't true. A lot of times it can simply be a compliment to your reality, much like garlic or parsley can compliment escargot.

Either you are posting on slashdot while driving, or an 18-wheeler plowed into your house... Either way, volume is the least of your problems.