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It's still mostly a social networking site, and to the extent "serious" content threatens the social networking aspect, Facebook has an interest in placing limi
by gozur88 10y ago
It's still mostly a social networking site, and to the extent "serious" content threatens the social networking aspect, Facebook has an interest in placing limits.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoLots of people have an interest in doing things that are bad for other people generally. That doesn't actually mean the rest of us should be okay with it.
- gozur88 10y agoCan the rest of us not go to other web sites for this kind of content?
- vidarh 10y agoThe rest of us can, but the question is to what extent the rest of us are or will in the future. It's irrelevant if the most fantastic analysis of news and current affairs is readily available around the corner if people stop going there.
- gozur88 10y agoI don't think you need to force-feed hard news to people. People who would read it will seek it out - the sorts of people who are content with what FB serves up are the kind of people who didn't read newspapers before the web and were content to get their news from daytime television.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> The rest of us can, but the question is to what extent the rest of us are or will in the future. Look, if people aren't going to choose news-focused sites over social-networking-focused sites, then existing social-networking-focused sites that bait-and-switch their users into a news-focused experience are just going to lose to actual social networking sites, starting the problem back at zero.