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> The population here is visibly smarter You pick your Facebook friends, you subscribe groups which you prefer with mods you like, and you are free to ban what
by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> The population here is visibly smarter
You pick your Facebook friends, you subscribe groups which you prefer with mods you like, and you are free to ban whatever Facebook recommends you. My Facebook feed is interesting, I even click ads from time to time because ads are good.
Comparison to HN is not fair, because Facebook is about friends and HN is about strangers. Still I kinda like Facebook because on HN there's very narrow Overton window and interesting comments are often downvoted while on Facebook I'm exposed to very broad range of ideas from far left to far right.
- Nuzzerino 5y agoIf you're frequently on Facebook, you still have to deal with comments from friends of friends, if reading their posts - and that's where the frustration starts.
- inglor_cz 5y ago"You pick your Facebook friends" True, but this picking is not completely voluntary. If you are on Facebook and your relatives/coworkers/colleagues are, too, they will feel offended if you reject their friend request and you will have some personal hassle in your meatspace. Happened more than once to me and I reacted by cowardly accepting everyone and then filtering out most of them. Was not proud. In that sense, being in a community of complete strangers here in HN is actually refreshing. What I really value on HN is the fact that a lot of comments contain valuable info or at least interesting thoughts. I often changed my perspective on something I previously considered obvious after reading a HN discussion. This is rare on Facebook, most of the user-produced content is low-effort, shallow, information-poor and/or fishing for likes.