One of the most prominent features of the past decade — the meteoric rise of social networking websites — has changed the way we communicate and interact, both online and in that other place that’s like the Internet but with sunlight and consequences. Facebook stands alone as by far the largest and most expansive social network, registering nearly 800 million active users. That’s roughly two and a half times as many people on the entire Internet in 2000. So yeah, they’re kind of a big deal. But like any one person, company or government becoming too powerful, they’ve inevitably turned a little bit sinister in some pretty evil ways.
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