Relevant Onion link (which precedes Snowden revelations by several years):
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
"Actually, Brooke, that's been discredited as any kind of real threat, the people that use that site are the people that no one would mind seeing bombed anyway."
The Onion's article is great - just remember that the situation is no joke.