Is Facebook a Necessary Evil?

 Facebook is here to stay and Big Brother loves it. That is when the slimy bastards at the NSA aren't busy sexting or watching streaming porn on their government supplied computers. Of course it's not the only social media site that tracks you, prods you with products and promises of anesthetic pleasure, digitally speaking. However, in my experience, it's the most insidious because of the way they manipulate their own brand of George Orwell's, brilliantly coined term "Newspeak".
Ironic, you might be thinking, that I have a Facebook icon on this page that takes you to my own little corner of this Kafkaesque cyberspace. Well..if you see what's posted there, I'll bet you a body part that it won't be visible for very long. I've been kicked off of Zuckerberg's cloud more times than a beggar walking into a boutique on Santa Monica Boulevard. Yet I don't take it personally. That's the beautiful flaw in this entire, technologically dominated world which tries to track our every movement, regardless or not whether you have something to hide and I don't (except maybe some old love letters from ex-girlfriends that I wouldn't want a new one to see). The simple fact is that we are all just binary bytes in the Matrix. Our existence is irrelevant. And unless you've spent some time in a Surveillance State that tries to crush even your thoughts like I have, then you won't know what the hell I'm talking about or even care.
And guess what?
I don't give a rodent's ass anymore either. Sure. It pisses me off sometimes because I'm an Honorably Discharged Veteran and law abiding citizen but that doesn't mean squirt. We are all potential threats to the state, or more specifically, the state of mind that has slithered and wrapped itself around society with multidimensional fangs and claws that are poised and ready to venom zap in the name of protecting liberty and justice for all. 
But it's an old game. Humans have been prisoners longer than jailers have been guarding them and, eventually, the culling of divergent thinking will end but not without leaving a big, steaming pile of feces on the ground for somebody to clean up. Just work through it, keep fooling yourself if you need to, and use whatever technology, drugs or diversions that take you through the night into the next day of a bright and shining lie in the United Stasi of America. Pay no attention to the lives of others. That job's already taken.