[deathcakes]

Minor nitpick - hoi polloi means the masses/people so the additional 'the' is redundant.

On your actual comment though, I feel I have to disagree; at least based on anecdotal evidence from people I know who use Facebook. It is a news feed if you count news as being only what people you know are talking about, which to me sort of misses the point of the internet. Surely you want to know about stuff that everyone else is talking about?

This wouldn't be a huge issue if people generally made the effort to seek out other things, but I find that this isn't the case.

Anyway, yeah, anecdotal and based on feeling rather than fact so feel free to discount.