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genuine question - why do people put up with stupid, arbitrary "rules" like these? FB is not "necessary" for life (it is not a drivers license or any other imp

by vijayr 15y ago

genuine question - why do people put up with stupid, arbitrary "rules" like these? FB is not "necessary" for life (it is not a drivers license or any other important identification requirement that is "needed"). Rushdie is famous enough that he can interact with his fans by having his own site, or in other sites (twitter) which don't have such stupid rules. In short, why is FB so important? There are phones, emails, twitter and a whole lot of other means of communication.

jamesbritt 15y ago
In short, why is FB so important? There are phones, emails, twitter and a whole lot of other means of communication. As best I can tell, people use it because people use it. Hell, even the various #occupy$foo groups, while railing about privacy violations and Goldman-Sachs use FB. Many, many people are OK with freely compiling a dossier of their life and associations to be sold to advertisers. Many, many people who aren't OK with that are still OK with allowing convenience to trump principles.