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As the world becomes increasingly unbound from geography more people are going to have friends outside of the "lets meet for coffee" radius. I think it's arrog
by lordCarbonFiber 9y ago
As the world becomes increasingly unbound from geography more people are going to have friends outside of the "lets meet for coffee" radius. I think it's arrogant to the extreme to suggest that people should go back to giving up on their connections just because you've made a judgement about a company's business model or privacy tradeoffs.
- drdeadringer 9y agoTo be fair, would you like to have coffee with a friend as a minder sits with you?
- zaphod4prez 9y agoYou think it's arrogant in the extreme to argue that we should boycott a company because of its immoral actions? That seems like a very reasonable, non-intrusive thing to do. Further, you assume that "leave Facebook" and "leave social media" mean "give up on your connections [with people far away]". That seems quite silly to me-- I've found that Facebook helps me maintain a few sort of distant-friend/acquaintance connections that I care about, while all my close friends who live far away connect with me by phone. Group text chats or email exchanges are also fun ways to connect that are just as good at doing their job as facebook is.
- anonu 9y agoI'm not suggesting people give up on connections. I'm suggesting that there are better ways to interact with people than on Facebook. They don't necessarily need to be face to face interactions. There are more substantive methods of communication that can leverage technology, without having big brother pick apart your likes and dislikes and advertise to you.