SOCIAL NETWORKING IS A BAD IDEA

We now live in a world of computerized gadgetry, and it has opened doors to a fascinating array of adventures.  It has also opened doors to fraud, and lots of it.  I disabled my Facebook account, but it got cloned anyway.  Trying to get Facebook to do anything about it is difficult, mostly because they're only easy to contact if you still have an account.  Try calling other numbers, and you get recordings . . . or nothing.  And it's not just social networking, it's the emails and texting and all that. Did you ever think you'd see a presidential election decided over the improper or careless use of these devices?  Well, it happened, and that in itself is a fraud.  What it is, in my opinion, is just theft and should be punished the same way.  Hackers should go to jail just like some dude that knocks over a convenience store . . . but they don't.  We let Russians get by with hacking sensitive information, and we even often make heroes out of jerks like Julian Assange and Wikileaks.  This makes the fraud even worse, and it makes governing agencies look like jerks.  Rights to privacy are involved here, and that should be reason enough to do more to stop the misuse of technology.  We're not smart about some things.  Emails became an issue in the campaign, but people thought Trump's tax evasion and refusal to release tax returns was acceptable.  Our we turning into a bunch of idiots?