Girls just want to have Facebook

To be honest I haven't really spent too much time thinking about the whole #deleteFacebook issue (crisis?). My reaction to the major themes: Privacy compromised--horrors! Lack of oversight--say it isn't so! Something MUST BE DONE--yawn. But this article by Vancouver-based technology critic, Alexandra Samuel, brings some new interest to the conversation. 

Samuel says, "#DeleteFacebook feels like yet another situation in which we are shaming women for using a tool that makes our unpaid and emotional labor easier." She brings a gendered perspective to the issue, and asks us to consider the role of gender politics and female vs. male communications styles in the use of social media. Samuel is also concerned about the impact that deleting Facebook will have on connections with family and friends, which is often the responsibility of women.

Am I going to #deleteFacebook? When my girlfriends go, I'll go.