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> Twitter and FB are not mediums for communication, but mediums for marketing broadcasts. Why not both? There are plenty of people having legitimate, personall
by notacoward 8y ago
> Twitter and FB are not mediums for communication, but mediums for marketing broadcasts.
Why not both? There are plenty of people having legitimate, personally meaningful conversations on both. There are plenty that use both for marketing. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
> You can also do that on Slack, Discord, even phpBB forums
...except that people mostly don't. They seem better able to discover and maintain their online friendships and communities on the bigger platforms, for whatever reason. They went into the market and they chose. Who are you to second-guess them?
- rchaud 8y ago> They went into the market and they chose. Who are you to second-guess them? The users are the ones second-guessing themselves. If all was fine and dandy on Twitter, there wouldn't be harassment mobs and people wouldn't be complaining. Decisions are not set in stone forever and aren't made with perfect information. What seemed like a good choice then may be sub-optimal now that users understand some of the design decisions that led Twitter to gravitate towards a marketing broadcast platform.