On December 17, 2007 New York Times reporter Stephanie Rosenbloom published an article attempting to cover up for Bill Gate's "Facebook" in its' profiling and spying on citizens, and triggering homicidal and suicidal reactions in socially disturbed youth.

While maintaining the line that Facebook is a network for "accumulating friends," "exchanging cybercocktails and kisses," and other cyberfluids, some of the truth makes its way through the sophistry and to the surface. The article leads with the fact that some students have unwittingly become the subjects of academic research, then later quotes Harvard sociologist, Nicholas Christakis, "We're on the cusp of a new way of doing social science. Our predecessors could only dream of the kind of data we now have", via the personal profiles of the students to which they now have open access.

The article continues, "but it's Facebook's role as a petri dish for the social sciences-sociology, psychology, and political science- that particularly excites some scholars. The editor of The American Sociological Review Vincent Roscigno, is quoted as saying, "For studying young adults, Facebook is the key site of the moment", and the National Science Foundation just gave a grant to Indiana University Psychology professor Eliot Smith to "study how people meet and learn more about potential romantic partners."

Unfortunately, most of the more insidious aspects of the Facebook/Myspace homicidal cult phenomenon are left out. However, the New York Times ends the article with a statement about German sociologist Georg Simmel and his theory of triadic closure as it relates to suicidal thoughts amongst a group of three girlfriends, "Triadic closure was first described by Simmel 100 years ago. He just theorizes about it…but he didn't have the data. Now we can engage that data", says Dr. Christakis.

The New York Times neglects to comment on how the triggering mechanisms for suicides and homicidal killings is found within the Facebook mechanism itself.

Read the full true story on Facebook and Simmel in the LaRouche Youth Movement’s latest counterintelligence pamphlet, Is The Devil in Your Laptop?