If you judge this piece by the title only, you should rationally think "Christianity" which has about 2.4 Billion devotees.
Think again. Facebook has now more monthly active users than that (at last count, although it has been argued that as much as half of the accounts are fake). And users they are, as this beast is like the worst of drugs.
What's more worrying is that Facebook's moral foundation is non-existent and its founder, is known to be borderline sociopathic. At least the religions preach long-evolved morals and keep their followers in line by shaming the deviants.
Facebook seems to do the opposite by calling out our worst, most self-destructive instincts and rewarding us for it.
I'm not a very religious guy, but I'll take Catholic guilt over Facebook any day.
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