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I agree with you that the Facebook hate - especially from non-techie peers - seems kind of foolish to me. Just thought it was funny though - that your local Re

I agree with you that the Facebook hate - especially from non-techie peers - seems kind of foolish to me. Just thought it was funny though - that your local Reddit group convenes on Facebook. I thought the self-serve subreddit platform was made for that micro-community purpose! ;)

blhack 14y ago
It is, but it's not very good at it. Facebook "bumps" threads when you respond to them, so relevant stuff stays at the top. And people use pictures of themselves as identifiers. It's a lot easier to recognize people based on faces than it is to recognize them based on silly usernames. I mean...these are people that I regularly interact with in real life. I get the pseudo-anonymity for reddit proper, but non-anonymized interactions on facebook are good.
- AVTizzle 14y ago
  Gotcha. Good point. I was really impressed with Meetup's functionality for these purposes as well - for the same reasons you've mentioned. I'm an organizer too, and when Facebook's new group system came out (Was it a year ago now? Facebook time is it's own reality...) its functionality was just perfect. Little things like Facebook's group system - I feel like there's a million different innovations on Facebook that all blow my mind. We were hacking a jomsocial social network at one time as a hobby project... Every time FB launched something we just couldn't help but laugh at how simple they made it all seem. Guess it all ties back in to your original point. Facebook. Respect.