So.. what to do. The fact of the matter is that my classmates and I viewed Law & the Internet Society as a cerebral, enlightening experience. We'd rave about it long after class was over. And both we and the people to whom we raved are still on Facebook. No one I know has taken any meaningful remedial measures to guard our privacy, or to help sculpt a world in which privacy and social networking may fruitfully coexist. I think we've all subordinated logic to rationalization, and the arguments in my original paper (below) are an attempt to profile that act of subordination. If I needed the self-flattery, I'd label it performance art.

I'm leaving the original paper below, unrevised, but I'll continue to revisit it periodically over the coming weeks and months. Like many of my classmates, I've got a cognitive dissonance which I've resolved in favor of the continued use of Facebook. But perhaps one day I'll read over Prof. Moglen's red ink, review our conversation, re-engage myself in conversation, and resolve to deactivate my account.