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People like me who have friends all over the country would have a very hard time keeping up to date and in contact with a lot of people we really, really like.

People like me who have friends all over the country would have a very hard time keeping up to date and in contact with a lot of people we really, really like. Seriously if your social circle expands to more than 40 miles in every direction, Facebook is useful as hell. Even with the clickbait bullshit and invasive ads.

grogenaut 10y ago
All of my friends are over 40 miles away except my new friends after moving. They all use facebook heavily. I don't have any issues keeping in contact with them.
bigbugbag 10y ago
I have a social circle that extent 1000 miles in every direction, I had enough common sense to never register on facebook and I'm still in contact with everybody in the circle the same way we did before facebook or web 2.0 was a thing: email and instant messaging (IRC fell out of favor after main networks got permanently wiretapped). Of course I don't keep up on a daily basis, which is in line with the AFK way of interacting with people in my local circle. We catch up once in a while through interpersonal conversation intended for the other person. Why would someone want a constant reminder of what happens in the daily life of every people they know in 40 miles radius is beyond comprehension to me. Do you even have anything to talk about when you actually see each other ? Do you even meet or talk to each other ? Facebook seems to be only useful because it is a walled prison, where prisoners are forbidden from interacting with the outside, so prisoners find it useful that they can at least communicate with each other in filtered, censored and filled with advertisement way. To me the usefulness of facebook is that it keeps much of the eternal september crap contained inside itself, though it has a tendency to leak and spill in the rest of the web when the prisoners get the occasional interaction with the outside world and not understand that what is acceptable in a prison environment is not in the normal world.

grogenaut 10y ago

All of my friends are over 40 miles away except my new friends after moving. They all use facebook heavily. I don't have any issues keeping in contact with them.

bigbugbag 10y ago

I have a social circle that extent 1000 miles in every direction, I had enough common sense to never register on facebook and I'm still in contact with everybody in the circle the same way we did before facebook or web 2.0 was a thing: email and instant messaging (IRC fell out of favor after main networks got permanently wiretapped). Of course I don't keep up on a daily basis, which is in line with the AFK way of interacting with people in my local circle. We catch up once in a while through interpersonal conversation intended for the other person. Why would someone want a constant reminder of what happens in the daily life of every people they know in 40 miles radius is beyond comprehension to me. Do you even have anything to talk about when you actually see each other ? Do you even meet or talk to each other ? Facebook seems to be only useful because it is a walled prison, where prisoners are forbidden from interacting with the outside, so prisoners find it useful that they can at least communicate with each other in filtered, censored and filled with advertisement way. To me the usefulness of facebook is that it keeps much of the eternal september crap contained inside itself, though it has a tendency to leak and spill in the rest of the web when the prisoners get the occasional interaction with the outside world and not understand that what is acceptable in a prison environment is not in the normal world.