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> But you're ignoring the fact that Facebook is effectively the first opportunity in history for a universal "push" mechanism for friendship. Not really. Actu
by username223 9y ago
> But you're ignoring the fact that Facebook is effectively the first opportunity in history for a universal "push" mechanism for friendship.
Not really. Actual "social networks" have done that for millenia. They even include a much smarter filtering system than Facebook's: unimportant information dies out quickly, and people are told or not told about events based on human judgment. Ah, well... this is what we have now.
- Tyr42 9y agoI don't think we had friends halfway across the globe back then. And if you did, you might not hear about them dying for months. We can now build social "networks" which are much less locality based, and where your friends aren't necessarily friends with each other. And that's good. It does mean that you've got less redundancy in the system though. Which is why it's not unreasonable to use new tools like facebook to keep up to date with people.