So here are my thoughts on FB and the world:

Most of us aren't swayed by idiots from the interwebs. We have normal brains
that think for itself which manifests as reasonably proactive people. Younglings
and those who never mentally matured are the ones easily manipulated by external
forces.

I claim that it is on our education system, which guarantees a surplus colony of
easily manipulated drones, is the issue. It's always been this way actually even
before the internet.

It's just that the natural progression of unchecked monopolies has once again
distilled and formed a small handful of companies/entities that have cornered
the worldwide market over underdeveloped people manipulation that was once in
the hands of a select local few.

In the past it was just churches, military, and witch-doctors and soothsayers.
Now there's no competition against the few machines that are able to perform
the same questionable manipulative rolls while extracting many times the profit
in such little time and super efficiency. They can only get stronger.

The solution is a different education system that hasn't squelched critical
thinking over rote memorization and conformity. Unfortunately that won't realize
any profit or gains for the current generations. There will never be such an
investment in our future. What generation would sacrifice themselves so the next
one will thrive? Who/what would invest in something that guarantees to destroy
itself. The people don't want it and won't allow it....both manipulated and
un-manipulated.

There will always be a Facebook. To focus on that is pointless. As a society, we
should take "learn from our mistakes" at heart, sooner than later.