[pyre]

  > it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping
  > commercials into your brain.

You've just defined television. I think that you need to broaden your definition of Facebook if you want people to listen to you point. Facebook is more than just the local television company.

[briandear]

It's more like cable access. Occasionally, there'll be something interesting, but most of the time it's a bunch of people standing around trying to put on a show about stuff about which no one cares.

[mattgreenrocks]

Sorry, local television company + Reddit.

(Ouch, but FB is meme/funny picture city. Gross.)