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Yes, it matters a huge amount. I fully understand your social life is not the same as my own, but mine revolves almost entirely around Facebook. Every party I
by peteretep 11y ago
Yes, it matters a huge amount.
I fully understand your social life is not the same as my own, but mine revolves almost entirely around Facebook. Every party I go to is organised via Facebook. Every small social event is coordinated via FB Messenger. I maintain a large network of friends around the world who o can and do visit when I travel, and it's not weird because they're up to date with my life and I'm up to date with theirs in a way that would take far far too much work outside of FB. Every baby photo from a friend, every wedding photo, is on Facebook. When I meet someone in person and enjoy their company, we connect on Facebook, and it's a low pressure way to keep in touch that often blossoms in to a real and fulfilling in-person relationship.
I realise not everyone's social life is like this, but for many many people, there would be a severely restricted in-person social life by not being on Facebook.
- bigbugbag 11y agoIndeed your social life works this way, but you're mistaken in thinking that not being on facebook would restrict afk social life. Look at the feedback from people who actually left facebook, humans are social and social finds a way to happen. Though you are right in pointing out that facebook divides people, without being active on facebook you cannot reach people who put all their social life through this giant transnational corporation website.
- panglott 11y agoIt's not that leaving would restrict your social life so much as that FB enables a much looser social network to coordinate. I'd stay in contact with my friends, but I'd see a lot less of what my friends-of-friends and acquaintances are doing. Those more distant social interactions are less valuable to me, sure, but there is some value in them and there are a lot more of them.