What do you think Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus would say about a site(s) like Facebook and Myspace?

Would they hate social networking sites?|||I think they would only respect communication that is intellectual discourse, not the drivel that is published on social networking sites.|||I think you should have added Narcissus to your list, even though he wouldn't quite fit into the classification as a philosopher it would certainly drum up more traffic to answer you. Narcissus would love the site because he could be on it but hate the fact others were competing with him for the space. I think the same is true for Sartre and Camus. They would love it for being able to express free thought but abhor it for the narcissists using the sites.|||Well, Sartre despised the bourgeoisie, so there you go.





As for Camus, he would provably say that what you should really be asking is wether you should commit suicide or not.





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Let's not forget that Sartre's philosophy helped ignite a wave of revolutions against tyranny across the globe. Including the Cuban Revolution, when he used to meet often with his friend Ernesto "Che" Guevara.


For better or for worse his ideas changed the world so... gloomy French philosopher? really?|||Sartre would re-iterate that hell is other people!





EDIT: Mme.grayure, I must also chime in about the epithet "gloomy." Je pense que Sartre was trying to make an ontological assessment, thus it's NOT a literal 21st century Anglo-American use of "hell" OR a typical contemporary tongue-in-cheek version of it, either. The assessment is simply this: your subjectivity is forced to contend with other subjectivities, or beings-for-themselves, to make meaning. That is all.|||Yes, but they're miserable French philosophers who are notoriously gloomy. I mean, "hell is other people"?! What's their problem?