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>It sounds like people are forgetting the world before Facebook. Isolated, repressed locations, limited flow of information from tiny amounts of sources. Faceb
by aguyfromnb 7y ago
>It sounds like people are forgetting the world before Facebook. Isolated, repressed locations, limited flow of information from tiny amounts of sources.
Facebook is not the internet. This problem was solved long before 2005.
- dehrmann 7y agoDepends where you live. https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/facebook-is-the-internet-for-many-people-in-south-east-asia-20180322-p4z5nu.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/facebook-is-the-internet-f...
- LunaSea 7y agoYou can also argue that Facebook was the death of local communication and socialisation and thus a step back for that goal.
- ringshall 7y agoAnd the world was connected long before the internet. Instant intercontinental comms have been around since intercontinental telegraph cables were laid in the late 19th century. The advent of radio, television, and telephone added more modes of instant very long distance comms. The internet was just the next layer of that. In the future, cheap satellite internet will further reduce geographic isolation.