Facebook is not your friend

For those who love it, Facebook has created a true global village. You can enjoy the constant background buzz and chatter of everyone you’ve known and loved but could easily lose touch with. And it's more than just a tool that enhances lives and social connectivity – it's so powerful that it brings down dictators. But there's a dark side to Facebook that its detractors want you to know about. It destroys the notions of privacy that civilised society has always relied on; it collapses the rich and complex notion of friendship into a single, mechanical “click”; and it rewires our brains into attention deficit disorder and social paranoia and creates lonely, screen-filled lives. And that’s not even to speak of its manipulative business practices. So where does the truth lie? Come to the Tabernacle in Notting Hill – with wine and charcuterie at the bar – hear the arguments and decide for yourself.

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The Tabernacle

35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY, Tel: 020 7221 9700

Westbourne Park, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill Gate 23,28,31,52,70,328,452

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Speakers for the motion

Baroness Susan Greenfield

Scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords
Albert Wenger

IT expert and partner at Union Square Ventures whose portfolio includes Twitter and Tumblr

Chair

Tony Curzon Price

Editor of openDemocracy

Speakers against the motion

Ben Hammersley

Editor-at-Large of WIRED magazine and Prime Minister's Ambassador to TechCity, London's internet quarter
Lewis Iwu

Programme director at Debate Mate, a peer-to-peer debate programme, former World University Debating Champion and imminent trainee at law firm Slaughter and May

Speakers subject to change

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