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I don't think those links are strong support for your point, which I understood to be that 'most people' use facebook for 'randomly clicking on that "cute girl
by jacalata 13y ago
I don't think those links are strong support for your point, which I understood to be that 'most people' use facebook for 'randomly clicking on that "cute girl that's a friend of a friend of a friend [but which I do not actually know]". The psych central article says that most people use facebook to look at specific people, as opposed to randomly clicking on unknown people. HuffPo also says that they are looking up people they already know.
I guess if your point was that most people use facebook to look at details of other people...well, I guess that's true, but it feels like saying the sky is blue, so I'm assuming you are trying to make a more specific argument?
- dvt 13y agoI was mostly strengthening my first point ("seeing what X or Y is up to") -- to show that most people do not specifically foster the deep relationships OP was mentioning, but rather just see what random people (you may tangentially know) are up to.
- ryanmerket 13y agoYou mean... it's a social network?
- dvt 13y agoI'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. I'm not discrediting FB as a social network (as a matter of fact, I'm not even criticizing FB directly!). All I'm saying is that the claim that FB fosters deep relationships is unfounded.