>Its a choice between having facebook, or having no internet at all. >Surely no internet at all, is the worst option.

But that's such a slippery slope to go on.

What prevents other companies to hop on the bandwagon to provide their own services for free?

And one day, lo and behold, we're on an Internet where the cost of entry to compete with the big blue (or any big gun) is almost insurmountable.