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My guess: on FB, it steers your post to your friends, so you aren't talking to the 1.4M so much as chatting with your friends about a meme that 1.4M people are
by jjoonathan 5y ago
My guess: on FB, it steers your post to your friends, so you aren't talking to the 1.4M so much as chatting with your friends about a meme that 1.4M people are also chatting with their friends about.
Just a guess, though. I don't actually FB.
- Freak_NL 5y agoI've noticed that whenever I end up on a Facebook page for some local business I'm adding on OpenStreetMap. Comments that do nothing more than @mention people publicly. It just seems weird to do that. Facebook is a weird place if you don't have an account. And of course, whenever you scroll down for some details (and hopefully a link to that business' proper website) you get slammed in the face with a dialogue box that asks you to create an account or login, so my engagement with Facebook usually ends there.
- golergka 5y ago> Comments that do nothing more than @mention people publicly. It just seems weird to do that. It's grown to be a more common way to share something with a friend. Less clicks than sharing in private messages, and also more inviting to conversation — which would be shared not only between you two, but also open to other friends like yours. Mostly those @mentions and conversations are very casual, like "me: @friendName -- @friendName: OMG this is so @frank -- frank: I'm in this picture and I don't like it". All of which makes perfect sense for mindless positive chit-chat.