It doesn't help that Facebook has alienated some advertisers with what they perceive as a highhanded attitude that implies that marketers have nowhere else to turn.

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Maybe that's what's alienated people because they can't quite get a handle on what they are.

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Alltold, we have to fear that the damage to our markets and financial system will be so great that another generation of investors will be alienated from using investment as part of t heir survival, juyst as happened between 1929 and 1953, when the stock averages finally made up all their lost ground.

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