Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose

Walked by the new building at 325 Kent Avenue designed by SHoP, and took a peak at the lobby.

Plusses and minuses. There are plusses and minuses to everything. I’ve been following the story of Cambridge Analytica for at least a year — and only now the full story is spilling out. The collusion with Facebook to manipulate the 2016 election and put Trump in the White House is disturbing to say the least.

I have never been a fan of FB for any number of reasons. i hate the look and feel of it. But most of those reasons are trivial against the benefit of having  access to a community of friends — real friends — not just Facebook friends. Most important to me was the way Cooper Union alumni came together on FB to debate the issues confronting the school, and to ultimately prevail in getting things back on the track to free tuition.

But FB has shown itself to be a bad actor — an egregiously bad actor.

Here is a useful article about deleting one’s account or other less drastic options. I’m waiting to see how things shake out in the near term. I’m leaning towards saying good bye. I’m weighing the plusses and minuses.