Why Is This Man Making Excuses For Facebook ???

Please read this crap and then think about what he's saying:

Those who’ve been raising alarms about Facebook are right: Almost every minute that we spend on our smartphones and tablets and laptops, thumbing through favorite websites and scrolling through personalized feeds, we’re pointed toward foregone conclusions. We’re pressured to conform.

But unseen puppet masters on Mark Zuckerberg’s payroll aren’t to blame. We’re the real culprits. When it comes to elevating one perspective above all others and herding people into culturally and ideologically inflexible tribes, nothing that Facebook does to us comes close to what we do to ourselves.

I’m talking about how we use social media in particular and the Internet in general - and how we let them use us. They’re not so much agents as accomplices, new tools for ancient impulses, part of “a long sequence of technological innovations that enable us to do what we want,” noted the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who wrote the 2012 best seller “The Righteous Mind,” when we spoke last week.

You can read the rest @
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/sunday/how-facebook-warps-our-worlds.html

So it's OUR fault? We WANT to be mislead? We WANT to tolerate lies that we don't even have the mental tools to recognize as lies?

Frank, just the fact that you write for The New York Times ought to be sufficient proof that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

But is it somehow OUR fault that many of us don't know that?

Sheesh !!!

By the way, I only read the NYT to keep track of the daily falsehoods our government keeps feeding us.