I’ve never used Facecrook. Well, I tell a lie. I’ve visited Faceborg links, but they’re effectively login-walled so it’s useless to do so. Aside from a deep mistrust one can feel in one’s stomach, and of course the skin crawling, it strikes me as a terrible idea, and essentially a form of usury. Still, there’s probably something to be said for getting forty or four-hundred million views on one post, or an internet forum that most Americans are checking at least once a day. You know, in case of emergencies or whatever. Any site used by one-out-of-seven human beings probably has something to be said for it, but on balance for me it’s like watching preschoolers playing with army surplus artillery shells and ball-peen hammers.

Google, on the other hand, was useful. So I’m disappointed to see it further lobotomized. Guess I’ll have to brush up on my Qwant-Fu.