Over on Techmeme last month there was there was a link to Robert Scoble‘s blog about Facebook kicking off Joel Comm, the Internet Marketer. Normally, I’d let this go because I think Scoble is a self-agrandizing dick whose primary field of expertise is self-promotion but his tone was so “hurt puppy” that I have to say something.  Here’ s the thing: you can’t bitch about being kicked off servers that don’t belong to you. If you don’t like the way they’re treating you, take your ball and go home. Don’t sit down on the curb and whine to everybody that passes by.

I’m all for people making money. I’m even all for people monetizing content on the web. Go for it, it’s not 1993 anymore and we should all come to terms with it. The flip side is that the web is almost infinitely more useful now than it was then but in my opinion everything doesn’t have to be monetized. How about if you Internet Marketer type leave a couple of places that are just for fun?

Francine Hardaway also discusses this on her blog in a good deal less hysterical, end-of-the-world fashion.

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