What's even more scary: you get the same litany of "reasons" explaining why people can't stop eating hot meals every day.

Comparing Facebook to alcohol/drug abuse is like comparing piracy to theft - it misrepresents both issues while making it more difficult to discuss their impact and ways to solve them.

So now FB is the equivalent of a hot meal. I think you're comically making my point.

No; what both FB and a hot meal have in common that they're things we do for pleasure, that are not necessary from biological standpoint, that you can stop using them at any time without much issue, but which many people use anyway because of the benefits it brings - in terms of both personal pleasure and strenghtening social ties.

Instead of calling people addicts, it'd be better to give them an actual compelling reason to stop. Hint: that whole privacy thing is not good enough of a reason.

But people don't just want a hot meal. They want Zuck to heat their meal for them AND they want Zuck to wear a blindfold.

So instead of heating your own food, or finding someone else to heat it - they demand politicians to intervene - to make sure Zuck - and all future food heaters - are properly blindfolded to respect your delicate sensibilities.

My fear is for the future of food heating technologies that don't involve Zuck. Hint: All the rest of them.