Myths Of Facebook, Twitter ‘Revolutions’ Are social networks political power brokers or just facilitators of social intercourse?

by Amando Doronila

Facebook, the social media network, is claimed to have more than 500 million subscribers worldwide. I am not one of that vast army of camp followers.

In the history of antiquity, camp followers consisted of the entourage of marauding military expeditions, including soldiers, cooks, court jesters to ill-humoured generals, squires looking after the horses, and of course, women who provided all sorts of services to the troops.

I consider Facebook a huge pool of information into which a person surrenders his/her privacy as a consenting adult to microscopic examination by voyeurs, or blackmail operators. Despite assurances of security of information and protection of privacy of the clients, there is nothing sure about leakage of information stored in confidence or about its secrecy ‘wall’ not being hacked by predatory Internet eavesdroppers.

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