This article raises several red flags for me. One, although Facebook is chided and derided, there's no comment from Facebook on how this works or why they would think it's useful to their users. It's rather unfair to take them to task without allowing them comment.

Two, why is everyone who is quoted nearly the same age, living in nearly the same parts of town (namely, the fancy parts of Brooklyn) and in media? Show of hands: who's willing to wager that these are just the author's friends? Is there no one outside of New York media who uses Facebook? And while we're at it, is there no one who will stick up for it?

Lastly, why is anonymity granted to "writers"? Since when is dishing on Facebook grounds for anonymity? These are not government secrets, people. I don't even want to get started on last week's magazine-talent article, which was littered with untraceable anonymous sources and not a shred of hard numbers. Where are the Observer editors that raise these questions?