[TeMPOraL]

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, I agree with the energy-efficiency issues, and the amounts of waste in current products annoy me. It got so bad that people honestly think routing data around the world to do something that should be done via a local network is a good idea. I wouldn't pick on Facebook that much though, it has a clear social benefit - they hit a sweet spot in terms of interpersonal communication, as witnessed by the adoption it has. I know I derive tons of value from Facebook and can hardly imagine switching to something else now.

On the other hand, the thing I disagree with is calling it the hacker culture. Let's be clear about what group of people you're complaining about - it's not the culture of skilled, playful people - it's the hipster/startup variant of "hacker culture", taking a bunch of APIs for cat pictures, gluing them together with the most trendy JS framework that happens to be totally overcomplicated for the task at hand, and calling yourself the master of the world. The guy with Raspberry Pi is probably the only actual hacker in your entire comment.

Also remember that programming went mainstream some time ago, and most of the programmers that are employed are not hackers.

Hacker culture is fine. Hipster culture is dangerous.