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A way I'd prefer: quit letting people share news on facebook. Heck, let's go back to text-only status updates and I can go back to reading what my acquaintance
by gydfi 10y ago
A way I'd prefer: quit letting people share news on facebook.
Heck, let's go back to text-only status updates and I can go back to reading what my acquaintances are eating. That would be much more pleasant than today's facebook.
- wilg 10y agoHow would you like them to share the news?
- jliptzin 10y agoEmail or text. Facebook itself is entirely unnecessary.
- Shish2k 10y agoWhy not just write a letter? Email and text are entirely unnecessary.
- brokenmasonjars 10y agoI deactivated my facebook years ago. Everyone who wanted to stay in contact I gave them a po box to write letters to. I check it bimonthly. It's pretty nice honestly.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- jliptzin 10y agoI will respond seriously even though I know you're trying to be facetious. Email and text, like Facebook posts, are all instantaneous means of communication, unlike sending a letter. Email and text are actually better too, because I can send the article directly to the recipients I intend on sharing it with, as opposed to a Facebook post, which is like an email, except the To: field is populated with <my entire address book, potentially>
- m-p-3 10y agoIn their own words.
- clamprecht 10y agoActually this gave me an interesting thought. The amount of effort required to "share" or "retweet" something is almost zero - it's a click. On the other hand, the effort to summarize something in your own words is more. Not a whole lot more, but enough that many fewer people do it. So I guess the tl;dr here is: maybe the shares that required more effort could be ranked higher. Maybe a better summary: "retweets are cheap"
- gydfi 10y agoWhy would I want people sharing news? If I want to read about what's going on with the world, I'll read a news site. If I want to know what's going on with my friends' lives, I'll read facebook.
- anigbrowl 10y agoYour friends may not share your highly compartmentalized approach to socializing. For many people events in politics directly impact their lives; it seems to me you're asking that your friends refrain from disturbing you with information you don't want to know about.
- gydfi 10y agoThere's a word for people who can't refrain from sharing their political opinions with their friends: they're called prats. Unfortunately facebook in its current implementation seems hellbent on encouraging people to be prats.
- hueving 10y ago>For many people events in politics directly impact their lives That doesn't fit what I've seen on Facebook. A better description, "for many people, ranting about their political opinions on Facebook seems to be fulfilling for them." The only way it impacts their lives is that it was the source of their entertainment for the day.
- ihuman 10y agoIf you have text-only status updates, couldn't someone still post the title and the URL?