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You are tacitly voting that Facebook should be viewed as an arbiter of identity by taking this point of view.
by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
You are tacitly voting that Facebook should be viewed as an arbiter of identity by taking this point of view.
- aaomidi 6y agoWhen society views Facebook as part of your identity you're forced to also keep it. It's not always possible for individuals to reject it. You end up with this self-feeding cycle of people keeping facebook around because they have to. Eventually what ends up happening is an alternative comes along and people essentially forget about the platform that it just shuts down and collapses on itself. We're slowly inching towards that final outcome.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoHard disagree. Facebook only has legitimacy if you personally agree it does. The minute you walk away, it loses all legitimacy. Same for LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. etc. There is no sense in which society at large using the product creates any degree of legitimacy for important functions like identity management. Precisely zero.