Sending Your Prayers to God — and Facebook

When Danny Duncan Collum thinks about Facebook, he thinks about the fable of a crocodile who offers a monkey a ride across a river -- only to eventually eat the monkey. At the monkey's surprise, the crocodile responds, "You knew I was a crocodile. You knew crocodiles eat monkeys." Duncan Collum, a professor of English and journalism at Kentucky State University and a Sojourners columnist, said Facebook is like the crocodile: sly and pretending to be our friend, but with clear ulterior motives. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly claimed that Facebook's mission is to "connect the world." But as numerous data privacy scandals and breaches of the company have demonstrated, Facebook sells user data, keeps its inner-workings hidden from users, and is ultimately focused on financial gain.