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I like how they talk about it as if not using Facebook is some extraordinary privation. I havn't used it for two years, and I officially closed my account a ye
by motters 14y ago
I like how they talk about it as if not using Facebook is some extraordinary privation. I havn't used it for two years, and I officially closed my account a year ago.
- pessimizer 14y agoI closed my account over two years ago, and it really can be a hardship for some people. If you're a non-smoker, it's hard to understand how being without a cigarette can be an extraordinary privation.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoIt's not like going without cigarettes, but it's like refusing to have a cellphone or voicemail. Social events? Nearly every event I attend, I'm invited to via Facebook. Family announcements? If there's a new baby in the family, I know about it because of Facebook. (My wife's third cousins twice removed will not call her to let her know, nor would I expect them to.)
- pessimizer 14y agoI think it's more like going without cigarettes, in that it's an enormous amount of useless crap information, some of it downright deceptive (i.e. applications posting as your friends), randomly sprinkled with tidbits that are slightly interesting, somewhat important, and rarely, downright vital. You have no idea what's going to come out the next time you hit F5, so you keep hitting it over and over again, although the vast majority of the output is garbage. It's a trained addiction, rather than a targeted means of communication like cellphones, voicemails, or emails. Caring that your wife's third cousins twice removed have had a baby, and feeling like you have to know about it right after it has happened - that's a symptom of facebook, not a problem that facebook is solving.