I have decided after much resistance that I would join the 200 million others on Facebook. It is a social experiment for me to see how the site works by becoming a complete Facebook junkie and then I am going to see if I can delete(not just deactivate) my entire account after 30 days. I outright do not agree with the fact that Facebook is a centralized network, a walled garden or the digital age. I do not trust my life's information to live on a country-sized website controlled by a handful of people. Now obviously we aren't in China or something and it's hard to argue that Mark and the gang are some kind of malevolent Orwellian dictatorship. But its the principle of it. I'm 30 now, and when I am 80 we are certainly only going to be communicating Facebook-style on the internet(in ways we can't even imagine right now). But I'll be damned if Facebook is going to hold 50 years worth of my life's data on it's servers. I think that would be dangerous. But further, I think that by the time I am 80, we will have figured out how to operate distributed social networks where all the servers on the internet interact with each other in a facebook-like way while preserving autonomous control of our own servers.

There isn't too much of a hypothesis other than, Centralized networks suck, and we need to exploit the good nature of the internet and decentralize everything.