I too think it's a clash of cultures, but I think the clash comes from people not grasping what BETA means. I think you'll find that the "unix culture" advocates not to run beta software on production equipment, even if production equipment is just a facebookmachine for your mom.

Tried to look at their website, but with all that loading, blinking and moving stuff 14 seconds was all I could endure.

their key servers are down.. do you think they even have stable code for that one?

I think you missunderstand the consept. You pay them by providing them all your email and social network.

Haven't been on /. for a few months now, and I totally understand why when I read the "news"

Even digg does this better by clearly marking their infomercial. Where did 1997 go?