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To your point about strangers: There are two basic ways to use social media: public to the world and friends only. I feel like the first is a non starter, do yo
by beamatronic 8y ago
To your point about strangers: There are two basic ways to use social media: public to the world and friends only. I feel like the first is a non starter, do you feel the same about the second use-case?
- _jal 8y agoYour description of the second omits participants: FB and their hundreds of "partners". Of course their participation is much different than what you're thinking of, but those unknown databases should be part of the calculation.
- ravenstine 8y agoNot necessarily. It'd be one thing if these "friends" were people the child might actually know in real life, and whom have a meaningful relationship to the parents. The problem starts for me with the fact that most of the "friends" people have on sites like Facebook are not actual friends, but acquaintances they might not have seen or talked to again for years. Most of the my "friends" on Facebook have hundreds of "friends", sometimes thousands. For all intents and purposes, most of those people are strangers.
- philpem 8y agoThis redefinition of "friend" is one of my big pet peeves of social media -- not one specific site, but in general. It feels like it massively cheapens actual friendships. "Followers" isn't much better. Different word, similar implications.