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>function well in society You are giving undeserved credit to Facebook by equating it to infrastructure. If facebook disappears tomorrow, people may miss it bu
by gsk 16y ago
>function well in society
You are giving undeserved credit to Facebook by equating it to infrastructure. If facebook disappears tomorrow, people may miss it but they are not going to stop functioning well in society.
- kscaldef 16y agoI'm not entirely convinced. I have a number of actual, real-life friends who I communicate with almost exclusively via Facebook. I don't know their email address, and in some cases I don't know their phone numbers. If Facebook went poof tomorrow, I would be able to get new contact information via other mutual friends, but it would be a major pain.
- whakojacko 16y agoExactly. Not to mention planning events and sharing pictures (the second one being significantly less important, but still useful). Sure there are alternatives, but they are far less convenient for everyone involved.
- sophacles 16y agoNot really my point... sort of the inverse actually. If I disappear from Facebook tomorrow, people may miss me, but even those that do know how to contact me won't think to contact me in a special way for many cases.