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> Not so with email, unless you write a filter that sends it straight to the trash. Right, so how is that not the same thing as opting out on FB? Because it’s
by throwaway287391 8y ago
> Not so with email, unless you write a filter that sends it straight to the trash.
Right, so how is that not the same thing as opting out on FB? Because it’s 3 or 4 clicks (in Gmail) instead of 2?
- zapzupnz 8y agoIt doesn't matter how many clicks it is. Email is one of the few sanctuaries away from mass social media. People are not expected to know how to do mailbox rules, nor should that ever be forced upon them. That is not the reason why they use email, it is not what they signed up for. When you force people to learn things like that, you know what you're called? A spammer.
- bigbugbag 8y agoAre you aware that email is actually one of the early online mass social media ? and one of the few that actually deserves to be called social while other such as facebook and derivative are antisocial due to be based on exclusion for their closed nature.
- icebraining 8y agoI think the point is that they're trying to force communication patterns from FB into email. Just because they're both social media doesn't mean people wish to communicate the same way on both - different affordances lead to different behaviors.
- zapzupnz 8y agoYep, and I'd say the masses, who only really came to the internet with the advent of web 2.0, only know how to do social media the new way, not the classic way. Even technical users seem to want to move away from email for more than office communication and password resets. A lot of projects move off mailing lists and on to forums, issue trackers, etc. because the affordances just match modern expectations.