@Bruce Funnily enough, I wasn't necessarily thinking about Facebook when it comes to my own life; actually, there's a chance I'll make a Facebook account some time in the near future, what with my aforementioned changing family life.

For my personal choices, even though I'm confident you and I are largely in agreement with regard to privelege and the apparent lack of thought from the independent web, the fact remains that these problems are rarely ever solved if people do not focus on themselves first. We simply must look after ourselves and never let the stresses of the larger groups in our lives derail those priorities. I do not think keeping yourself in a highly damaged state puts you in any sort of position to help counter-balance the negative forces of our shared societal cultures.