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That's not value that it offers; that's value that it takes away from you by displacing better means of communication and then holds for ransom.
by a1369209993 9y ago
That's not value that it offers; that's value that it takes away from you by displacing better means of communication and then holds for ransom.
- macintux 9y agoYes and no. Mostly no. The only other means of communication which might have led me down the same path on that occasion was a family message board on QuickTopic. However, frankly, Facebook is much better, for a wide variety of reasons. The message board was never ideal, privacy was a binary choice, people regularly struggled with it, photo sharing was a joke, etc. It's not at all obvious that the short hospital stay would have been communicated there. Email, phone? Nope, wouldn't have happened. Has Facebook displaced other communications mechanisms? Sure. But for the most part, the alternatives were far from ideal. Facebook has won by being better. It's just unfortunate that they aren't satisfied with being a good way of keeping in touch with friends and family.