&gt; All arguments for and against FB can pretty much be applied to the internet overall.<p>I like the spirit of this idea, but I don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s correct in this context. Facebook, after all, is a service that bases its experience around togetherness and being &quot;connected&quot; to the people you &quot;care&quot; about. It encourages an all-inclusive behavior from its users, instead of a selectively-inclusive, or even exclusive, behavior.<p>This is a unique trait of the Facebook service, which much of the web absolutely did not copycat with success until Facebook&#x27;s IPO. To compare Facebook and its particularly vicious UX which ruthlessly looks to capture the attention spans of the world&#x27;s lowest-common-denominator, to the overall internet is an insult to people who had better plans for the internet than this.