A recent Medium article suggests that it doesn’t matter whether Facebook is broken up, or implements radical changes, or is replaced by a different platform. The author, Colin Horgan, says that it’s not necessary at all. He is partly right.

He’s right that we don’t need Facebook to fill the roles it does. He’s wrong when he says we don’t need those things at all.

As mentioned in two previous Lexical Geekery entries, I’ve been reading Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget which is a refreshing manifesto about preserving individual voices in the mishmash of online culture where identity has become something like an endangered phenomenon.