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Yes, some. I have no social media presence, nor do I care to.

by handedness 9y ago

coldtea 9y ago
That just proves that you don't care -- not that those who care are few (which is a different assertion).
- true_religion 9y ago
  Some is an indeterminate amount. It can be anything from 1 to Infinite. The phrase "some X" does not connote that X are few, or many, merely that they are existent.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    Some might be indeterminate, but when used as "even some adults appear ..." like in the parent comment it clearly implies it's a rare phenomenon. One would never write "even some adults appear to prefer spicy food" or "even some adults appear to be single" -- things that we know tons of people do.
- horsawlarway 9y ago
  Let me just remind you... since you sound like you care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services: if you're on those services you're encouraged to interact with other people who also care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services. You're self selecting for a group that re-enforces your opinion. As of 2016, only ~70 percent of adults in the US use facebook. Of those 70%, ~25% use it once a week or less. Those who don't care are MANY (probably most).
  - coldtea 9y ago
    >As of 2016, only ~70 percent of adults in the US use facebook. Of those 70%, ~25% use it once a week or less. That leaves a 75% that use it more than once a week. Let's be charitable and make it only a 25% (1/3 of them) that use it multiple times per week or daily and care about their standing there. That's still a whooping 40-50 million people, in the US alone, and of those lots of people do care and are influenced by their social media status. It's not like "even some adults" as if it is as rare as butterfly collectors or septagenarias that are into Eminem or something -- it's a huge social phenomenon. A 50% of the adult population (70% * ~0.75) that use it more than once a week is already impressive. And 'adults' is the wrong metric, since it includes anyone 18-100. So "70% of adults in the US use FB" doesn't reveal the whole picture, as a lot of them are not even in the relevant demographic (e.g. people that were already 50 or so when FB hit the scene in the mid-late 2000s).
- tpeo 9y ago
  I second true_religion's comment. "Some" here stands merely for an undefined non-zero quantity.

Yes, some. I have no social media presence, nor do I care to.

coldtea 9y ago

That just proves that you don't care -- not that those who care are few (which is a different assertion).

true_religion 9y ago
Some is an indeterminate amount. It can be anything from 1 to Infinite. The phrase "some X" does not connote that X are few, or many, merely that they are existent.
- coldtea 9y ago
  Some might be indeterminate, but when used as "even some adults appear ..." like in the parent comment it clearly implies it's a rare phenomenon. One would never write "even some adults appear to prefer spicy food" or "even some adults appear to be single" -- things that we know tons of people do.
horsawlarway 9y ago
Let me just remind you... since you sound like you care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services: if you're on those services you're encouraged to interact with other people who also care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services. You're self selecting for a group that re-enforces your opinion. As of 2016, only ~70 percent of adults in the US use facebook. Of those 70%, ~25% use it once a week or less. Those who don't care are MANY (probably most).
- coldtea 9y ago
  >As of 2016, only ~70 percent of adults in the US use facebook. Of those 70%, ~25% use it once a week or less. That leaves a 75% that use it more than once a week. Let's be charitable and make it only a 25% (1/3 of them) that use it multiple times per week or daily and care about their standing there. That's still a whooping 40-50 million people, in the US alone, and of those lots of people do care and are influenced by their social media status. It's not like "even some adults" as if it is as rare as butterfly collectors or septagenarias that are into Eminem or something -- it's a huge social phenomenon. A 50% of the adult population (70% * ~0.75) that use it more than once a week is already impressive. And 'adults' is the wrong metric, since it includes anyone 18-100. So "70% of adults in the US use FB" doesn't reveal the whole picture, as a lot of them are not even in the relevant demographic (e.g. people that were already 50 or so when FB hit the scene in the mid-late 2000s).
tpeo 9y ago
I second true_religion's comment. "Some" here stands merely for an undefined non-zero quantity.