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The author states: >"Here’s the thing. You won’t be as outcast and lonely as you think. Your friends—and I know this is hard to believe—are still your friends
by bogomipz 9y ago
The author states:
>"Here’s the thing. You won’t be as outcast and lonely as you think. Your friends—and I know this is hard to believe—are still your friends in real life. You just won’t get notifications of what they ate on their lunch break."
This is so true and you might even find that you interact with your real friends more in real life after quitting Facebook.
"Facebook friends" is really a misnomer that has kind of devalued the word friend in my opinion. I think for the vast majority of connections on FB are more likely to be "Facebook acquaintances." These exists in real life as well, you just might not be as up to date on "what they had for lunch"(quoting the article.
- walkingolof 9y agoProblem with quitting Facebook has nothing to do with your (real) friends, at least not for me, but for one or two communities (retro computers in this case), 10 years ago they would have been on a forum-like platform, but are now on Facebook instead.
- bogomipz 9y agoWell FB is also a "forum-like" platform. What does that mean? What does FB provide your two communities that wouldn't be available via a Slack Channel/Blog/mailing list/subreddit etc?
- softawre 9y agoThe fact that all of those people are already in the community on Facebook?
- bogomipz 9y agoSo what FB is really providing is inertia. You hear similar sentiments by people that they stay on FB because "I don't have any of these peoples email addresses." I think this is the real danger, that FB replaces all these other channels and mediums. Have you suggested to the group the possibility of moving off of FB? I mean it sounds like they are tech people if they are part of a computer group.