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Your stance is quite interesting, by my understanding you shouldn't like sending mail, making phone calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet either f
by trickjarrett 18y ago
Your stance is quite interesting, by my understanding you shouldn't like sending mail, making phone calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet either for the cost of postage, bandwidth, SMS fees, etc as that is the government or corporation profiting from your relationships.
I use Facebook for the relationships. It allows me to remain in touch with friends from highschool, college, past jobs, and other social groups I am a part of.
Could I do this outside of Facebook? Yes but it would require a lot more work on my part to keep in tangential contact with my hundreds of friends.
- iamdave 18y ago"sending mail, making phone calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet" The difference between these things and Facebook is that the latter is a tool of convenience. The others (with the exception of texting) are matters of necessity to contact people. Could a person go completely without post mail, cell phones or email? Sure if they choose to live completely off the grid and live off the fat of the land (like my father does). Could they go without if they plan on keeping in touch with people? Not without a couple hundred homing pigeons. But Facebook is just a convenient tool that centralizes a lot of those services; and like I said I understand the point of business (make a buck) but I think Facebook can find a way that doesn't destroy user satisfaction.
- trickjarrett 18y agoPhones used to be an item of convenience too. So did post. Social networks are too new to be considered a staple but for many of my generation they're a major tool of life.