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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
- ttoinou 8y agoYou need to make a sentence to make a point
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoI am not making a point, I am simply providing a reference for you to read up on the basics of the stuff that you so confidently speak about.
- ttoinou 8y agoSo if all my friends and family are on facebook, I am ~forced~ to use facebook ? All my friends and family live in my state so I guess I don't have a choice and have to live my whole life in my motherland
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoIf you want to productively engage in a conversation, it isn't helpful if you use the weakest possible example for the other side's position to then dismiss it. That is just a slightly less obvious version of straw-manning. Also, your definition of "voluntary" as "the victim could conceivably have done something to prevent it but didn't" is very unusual and completely useless. By that definition, if someone poisons your food with a poison that is detectable with a test known in the literature, and you then eat it without testing it first, you have voluntarily let yourself be poisoned. If you get shot because you didn't wear bullet-proof clothing, then you voluntarily let yourself be shot. That's neither what "voluntary" normally means, nor would it in any way be a useful definition, as essentially everything that happens to you would have to be considered voluntary.
- ttoinou 8y agoYou did not express a position here, just provide a link, so I had to make assumptions
- Fnoord 8y ago> So if all my friends and family are on facebook, I am ~forced~ to use facebook ? "The classic example is the telephone, where a greater number of users increases the value to each. A positive externality is created when a telephone is purchased without its owner intending to create value for other users, but does so regardless. Online social networks work similarly, with sites like Twitter and Facebook increasing in value to each member as more users join." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
- ttoinou 8y agoI can read, I don't see the link with the discussion. I know people who are not on facebook. They made the decision. They have free will.