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Almost everything I ever want to say when people look at me in awe and say "You aren't on Facebook?". I just don't get any satisfaction from maintaining a list
by borplk 14y ago
Almost everything I ever want to say when people look at me in awe and say "You aren't on Facebook?".
I just don't get any satisfaction from maintaining a list of acquaintances and classmates that I happen to know because we happened to go the same school and I have no interest in reading about their lives and stalking them and finding out who their girlfriend/boyfriends are and who their newest friend is.
I like the traditional way of friendship and communication because it has a 'natural permission setting'. For example if you ask my close friends they can tell you a lot of stuff about me, but once you get a little further, they wont know that much.
Facebook creates this artificial thing where you can get a lot of information about someone without them knowing and you can exchange a very small amount in return.
In the traditional way, if you care enough about me to want to know if I'm single or not, you will have to ask me (explicit expression) but using Facebook you can just look it up (implicit).
- Evbn 14y agoYou can curate your FB sharing lists to handle this, just like in real life.