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This is a false dichotomy, Facebook is in no way required or even useful to keep in touch with anyone.
by nukeop 9y ago
This is a false dichotomy, Facebook is in no way required or even useful to keep in touch with anyone.
- bogomipz 9y agoIndeed, people kept in touch with friends and family just fine before Facebook. And people who don't use it now also manage to keep in touch with people they care about just fine.
- virgilp 9y agoThis says nothing. People shopped online before Amazon; watched movies before Netflix, and used smartphones before Apple started making them
- musage 9y agoNone of those are essential either. Where you have a choice you have responsibility. If people prefer supposed convenience, let them state it as such, but let nobody claim they have no choice.
- bogomipz 9y agoYou comment is ambiguous to the point of being meaningless. As such I would say your own comment says nothing. The three things you listed are pure technology. Staying in touch with people you care about and making time to do so is not an inherently technological undertaking.
- jimmy1 9y agoThis says a lot. I miss the movies sometimes (just wish they were a bit cheaper) and binge watching is horrible for your health (not just physically but mentally as well -- teaches you how to be an addict). Amazon, while convenient, has destroyed an entire economic subsystem in it's wake and destroyed a way of life that was more communal and social to one that is more isolated and reclusive. Finally, people more and more these days are trying to find ways to detach from their smartphones (I think your comment wrongly assumes Apple "created" the smartphone -- they did not)
- mywacaday 9y agoWhere i think Facebook fills a gap is that it creates the feeling that you are in touch with someone without having to go to the effort of phoning/emailing 1:1/physically meeting, in some ways I think there is a guilt mitigation built in there somewhere. When I compare how may parents keep in touch with friends & family through regular calls and meeting I think we have definitely lost something personally and as a society. How much more personal is a one on one conversation can be compared to a facebook post. I always thought there was room for a network that would require a physical meeting occasionally.
- alkonaut 9y agoThe two billion facebook users indicate that managing social activity/network online is a product actually in pretty high demand.
- salvar 9y agoWait, if someone tells you they find Facebook useful to keep in touch with friends, you'd tell them they're wrong?
- andrepd 9y agoIt's absolutely not the only way to do so, and it's a false dichotomy to say quit facebook == don't get in touch with your friends.