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is it harder? maybe. is it a requirement? nah
by rantwasp 6y ago
is it harder? maybe.
is it a requirement? nah
- tester756 6y agoat some point of the increased difficulty it becomes a requirement.
- rantwasp 6y agoit does not. FB becoming a requirement is such a 1st world problem. Try living without clean water and come back to lecture me about “increased difficulty”
- tester756 6y agoholy shit dude yea, water is required to live, facebook is required to get degree times easier in my example, those aren't mutually excluisive what do you want to argue here about, except just arguing for the sake of arguing? I don't like fb, I don't use it when I don't have to and after graduation I'm probably not going to use it more often than once a X months, but I had to have & sometimes use it unless I wanted to make my life harder - I don't like it, but that's the reality.
- rantwasp 6y agoI am not arguing with you. I am pointing out FB is a POS and that it should not be required. Period. Anything that uses FB as a way of keeping people informed should use at least another channel to disseminate that information, preferably not tied to big corporations.
- tester756 6y ago>should use at least another channel how are you going to convince $whole_group_of_students_of_given_year to move communication off the facebook?
- herbst 6y agoBy not participating, loudly. Easy as that By taking part you just make this more normal/ok than it really is
- tester756 6y agoand if nobody moves then? then I'm at the disadvantage, sad but that's the reality.
- johannes1234321 6y agoMaybe that would work now (while nowadays some people look confussed at me that I don't have an instagram account) but at least ten years ago that brought a reaction like "weirdo" and people continued to use their group. In some cases you have a friend who relates messages to you. In these days, where in presence school in many places doesn't happen students know each other only virtually, if you don't hang out where the crowd is, there is no chance of getting information.
- ryandrake 6y agoIf some group of friends shuns you because they insist on you using Facebook, then I have bad news for you: they might not be such good friends as you think. I’ve been off FB for close to 10 years now and I can say with confidence that it has not had any measurable detrimental effect on my social life. My friends know I’m not there and know how to contact me, and they do. An event that is exclusively organized on FB is not an event I want to participate in, so I don’t. Dumping FB probably improved my social life and mental health since I’m not wasting so much life “scrolling the feed” anymore.
- johannes1234321 6y agoAs do, I but in some situations it's hard to avoid. But good it works for you.
- throwaway3699 6y ago
- yibg 6y agoIt’s also not a requirement to have a phone, or internet, or electricity. Harder sure, but not a requirement right?
- rantwasp 6y agonah. let’s not compare electricity to a bloated social media platform. if FB goes away tomorrow we can pretty much keep going. if electricity goes away our society would crumble.
- Scoundreller 6y agoI’d use “grid electricity” as my example. You can generate your own in the right circumstances, with a lot of benefits, but it can make things kinda difficult.
- rantwasp 6y agoI agree with you that electricity is something that is required to live a "normal" life. Facebook is not.