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It's a stretch to call Facebook _essential_. If you're worrying about someone, pick up the phone. Using Facebook has its own heavy costs.
by JoshMnem 8y ago
It's a stretch to call Facebook _essential_. If you're worrying about someone, pick up the phone. Using Facebook has its own heavy costs.
- fooker 8y agoHow do you keep track of the people -> current location mapping in your head? Are you going to suggest keeping a notebook for that?
- JoshMnem 8y agoI know where people live. I have a contacts list on my computer with phone numbers and email addresses. I don't use Facebook, WhatsApp, or any of those sites. There is a price for knowing exactly where everyone is at all times. https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-our-phones-tristan-harris-wants-to-rescue-them/ https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-...
- fooker 8y agoThere is also a price for knowing phone numbers and email addresses. You can arguably do much more harm by utilizing a phone number and email address, compared to knowing which city someone lives in.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoI don't see how, but if you feel so strongly about it you could put those cities in your address book as well. It's still a huge stretch to call facebook essential. A growing number of peers and myself don't facebook, yet I don't know of anyone who has lost their home, job, and gone hungry because of it.
- JoshMnem 8y agoMy social life and productivity have greatly improved since I quit Facebook. I also started to read more books, because my general concentration is returning. Every time you read an algorithmic news feed, ask yourself, "is this more educational than reading a great book?" The answer will nearly always be no.
- JoshMnem 8y agoI'm referring to the huge cost of Facebook in productivity and cognitive functioning. I don't think there is a price for knowing phone numbers and email addresses. It's much more harmful for Facebook to have my data than for people who I care about to have my phone number or email address. (My email addresses are public anyway.)