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Am I missing something? I thought Facebook was the company that brought us wide-ranging privacy violations, mass narcissism and FarmVille spam, I wasn't aware t

Am I missing something? I thought Facebook was the company that brought us wide-ranging privacy violations, mass narcissism and FarmVille spam, I wasn't aware that they were making people's lives better. Judging from the number of hours people waste staring at their wall and worrying about how many people liked their photos I will have to disagree with you.

rblion 14y ago
I didn't say it was 100% positive. Just that it has done more good than bad if you ask me. Think of all the millions of people who keep in touch with most of their multi-faceted social networks via Facebook. Organ donor program too. What else do you think a social network could do to help people? They create the tool, people use them how they CHOOSE to. Narcissism, apathy, and ignorance are cultural problems that need more than 'startup solutions'.
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- loopdoend 14y ago
  Yeah, but Facebook has a way of magnifying those cultural issues and causing narcissistic behavior in people who would not otherwise be narcissistic. I think that not making friend counts or like counts such a prominent feature on the site would go a long way toward helping that. Even on Kickstarter projects I get to see how many hundreds of friends on Facebook the organizer has. I think to myself that if I were to create a Kickstarter project I would have to go join Facebook and start collecting friends, lest I look unpopular. This is very unappealing to me.
  - katzgrau 14y ago
    I'd think most Facebook users don't care about the # of friends they have. Some definitely do, but I'll go out on a limb and say those are the shallow types I'd rather not be friend with anyway (but whether they compose the majority of the world is probably a good debate!). A lot of my post was truly speaking from the heart. Facebook is great. I check it once daily to see what my friends are up to or if anyone messaged me. # of friends? Who cares. There's a 1:1 relationship between my Facebook friends and the people I'm friends with in real life. Some celebrities accept anyone as a friend, but you have to take that for what it is: self promotion and relationship building. That Facebook account is probably unusable.

rblion 14y ago

I didn't say it was 100% positive. Just that it has done more good than bad if you ask me. Think of all the millions of people who keep in touch with most of their multi-faceted social networks via Facebook. Organ donor program too. What else do you think a social network could do to help people? They create the tool, people use them how they CHOOSE to. Narcissism, apathy, and ignorance are cultural problems that need more than 'startup solutions'.

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loopdoend 14y ago
Yeah, but Facebook has a way of magnifying those cultural issues and causing narcissistic behavior in people who would not otherwise be narcissistic. I think that not making friend counts or like counts such a prominent feature on the site would go a long way toward helping that. Even on Kickstarter projects I get to see how many hundreds of friends on Facebook the organizer has. I think to myself that if I were to create a Kickstarter project I would have to go join Facebook and start collecting friends, lest I look unpopular. This is very unappealing to me.
- katzgrau 14y ago
  I'd think most Facebook users don't care about the # of friends they have. Some definitely do, but I'll go out on a limb and say those are the shallow types I'd rather not be friend with anyway (but whether they compose the majority of the world is probably a good debate!). A lot of my post was truly speaking from the heart. Facebook is great. I check it once daily to see what my friends are up to or if anyone messaged me. # of friends? Who cares. There's a 1:1 relationship between my Facebook friends and the people I'm friends with in real life. Some celebrities accept anyone as a friend, but you have to take that for what it is: self promotion and relationship building. That Facebook account is probably unusable.