In her front-page article “What’s not to ‘like’? Facebook, maybe’’ (March 24), Beth Teitell trivializes the significance of Facebook and the seriousness with which many of its users have responded to the latest news of its irresponsibility. Most of my Facebook friends use Facebook partly to keep up with thoughtful news analyses, not to see what one another eats for breakfast, as Teitell suggests. Many use it to organize for political or other important events, such as Saturday’s March for Our Lives.

In addition, users did not respond to the data breach with a collective “shrug.’’ Numerous Facebook threads have discussed the most effective way to respond. Most decided it would hamper their communication, without affecting Facebook’s practices, simply to delete their accounts. Instead, instructions circulated widely about how to alter Facebook settings to minimize access to and surveillance uses of our information. It was easy. Everyone should do it.

Terry Mason

Jamaica Plain