Facebook useful, but Steve Coll objects to company's terms, and more
(NEWSER) - Four years and 4,000 friends later, Steve Coll is calling it quits when it comes to Facebook. It's not that Coll doesn't find Facebook useful or understand its appeals. To Coll, quitting what one of his colleagues has dubbed "Facebookistan" is an exercise in citizenship, his protest against the company's dubious corporate governance system (which essentially lets Mark Zuckerberg hang onto power no matter what) and authoritarian terms of service, he writes in the New Yorker . "This seems the right time to leave such a crowded and volatile public square," writes Coll. More»
