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Foolsbook is an aberration that was never supposed to be. It started out as a college student project for other college students. Somehow people found out they could communicate with students at other colleges, then with alumni and other groups. Then friends and family got involved. As people left college, they stayed with it. Suckerpunk stared seeing dollar signs and well, the rest is a descent into the netherworld it has become.
There was MySpace, GeoCities and several others that have since fallen out of favor. In the past, a company, school, family, social group or whole community would simply get a web hosting account and domain name and load a forum like this one. Anybody fitting the group's profile could join and participate, just like we do here. Then they found out they could get on FB without any of that expense or effort. They never realized that their souls were for sale and that everything they posted would be gathered, stored, shared with entities that paid for it to be able to be used against them. But they've become Lemmings and refuse to or don't know how to leave it. Many FB users are web illiterate and have no idea even how to open an email account. They wouldn't even be on it if their family didn't set it up for them to be able to send pictures of the kids to Granny 500 miles away instead of paying for a postage stamp and sending the pictures by mail.
It's turned into a second internet, sort of a sub internet, but one that is privately owned and operated for profit and manipulation of personal data.
