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so why FB and not Twitter, for example? Is it the simplicity of having your photo album and messaging under the same platform?

• abstractbill 16y ago
  Integration of photos, videos and messaging is definitely useful, as is the fact that all of our relatives have actually heard of facebook as opposed to twitter ;) I guess the other consideration is that facebook at least has some semblance of privacy, which is reassuring when posting photos and videos of someone too young to consent (or talk, for that matter).
  • pilif 16y ago
    Thank you for your remark in the second paragraph. I was beginning to think that I'm the only person on this planet concerned by all these "cute" baby pictures being posted publicly. Pictures which the person on it will likely be really ashamed of in a few years. Even though babies might look cute and you kinda might have "created" them, they are real people, not pets or lifeless objects. The same as you can't post pictures of a random person without their consent, you really shouldn't post pictures of your child. Leave the posting of their baby pictures to them, once they are old enough.
• whatusername 16y ago
  Photo Tagging and the News Feed are possibly facebooks two greatest inventions. They also have: 2 way relationships, some measure of privacy, simplicity of use, Integrated Chat/Messaging, ubiquity, inertia