Facebook plus Goldman-Sachs minus Me

I have really loved Facebook. The opportunity to connect instantly with 500 million people across the globe is awesome. I have reconnected with old friends. I have made new friends. I have advertised events, sold goods. It's just been one of the greatest technologies of our time.

But everything has a price. Facebook has been plagued with security issues. Our legislators lost the battle to save us from ourselves by attempting to regulate how Facebook can use our information.

No matter what Wall Street is doing Main street is still floundering. Housing values continue to plummet, unemployment continues to rise. The financial crisis that nearly took the entire globe out of commission is not over. But some people and companies prospered through it all. They prospered because they designed the mechanism that destroyed the global economy.

Goldman-Sachs is at the top of that list. Facebook has decided to merge and take investments from Goldman -Sachs. Why? because Facebook needs more capital to continue growing at a mind blowing paste, and giving us more of the fun and distraction we've come to desire and require. Many companies go public at this point in their growth. Zuckerberg is quoted as saying "We don't want that much transparency" Goldman-Sachs has already created/found a loophole in the SEC laws that will let Facebook collect investment from large groups of people as if they are only one person. This will allow them to raise the capital they need and avoid any financial disclosure to the government and to the citizens of the world.

The price for our cell phone technology is that our government can spy on us they probably even have the capability of wiping us out if we are interesting enough. Somehow that doesn't worry me so much. Goldman-Sachs having access to my information exceeds the boundaries of my willingness to risk.

For me, it's not much different than inviting a known terrorist into the country, onto the plane, into our home.

I think this is worth discussion. I think it's worth contacting Facebook. I think it's worth a lot of posting and sharing.

I think it's worth me deleting my Facebook account.
I don't expect anyone to do the same.

The most important lesson of my life has been that their are many powers greater than me. Powers which I may not be able to defeat. Powers that have at times had their foot on my neck. Facebook and Goldman Sachs are among those powers.

I may not be able to stop them or change them but I will not be an accessory to my own demise.

With great love and respect,

Tonya Pinkins