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So you are saying a service designed for the lowest common denominator suffers from the lowest common denominator abusing it? Why do people have facebook accou

by ck2 13y ago

So you are saying a service designed for the lowest common denominator suffers from the lowest common denominator abusing it? Why do people have facebook accounts, seriously?

ben0x539 13y ago
Is this some tragedy of the commons thing? Individuals have to have facebook accounts or they'd be socially isolated because everybody else has facebook accounts they hate too? And it's not worth it to the individual user to cut themselves off?
TeMPOraL 13y ago
Because it's an extremely good, extremely efficient communication tool for keeping in touch with people you know. Much better than everything else there is so far.
- chez17 13y ago
  I don't have a facebook profile and I keep in touch with people with the exciting new technologies of email and telephone. Amazing what actually talking to people does.
  - alex_c 13y ago
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
  - TeMPOraL 13y ago
    I also use the exciting technologies of email and telephone, and talk to people. On top of that, I use Facebook to keep in touch with the remaining 90% of people I have weaker ties to, but once every half a year or sth. want to do some stuff together. One big value of Facebook is that it's a push system, not pull (and we know that push > pull). I can stay current with the life of hundreds of people I know without having to think much about it or check it manually. It scales better than e-mail/phone and allows different new ways to interact with people. And there's no reason not to use e-mail and phone along with using Facebook.
  - sneak 13y ago
    As someone with the same email address for fifteen years, the same phone number for almost ten, and who deleted his facebook account five years ago, I can now say that facebook does it better. I made a new account this month and reconnected with people I haven't been in touch with for years. Not everyone is going to set up a mailing list you can subscribe to.

by ck2 13y ago

So you are saying a service designed for the lowest common denominator suffers from the lowest common denominator abusing it? Why do people have facebook accounts, seriously?

ben0x539 13y ago

Is this some tragedy of the commons thing? Individuals have to have facebook accounts or they'd be socially isolated because everybody else has facebook accounts they hate too? And it's not worth it to the individual user to cut themselves off?

TeMPOraL 13y ago

Because it's an extremely good, extremely efficient communication tool for keeping in touch with people you know. Much better than everything else there is so far.

chez17 13y ago
I don't have a facebook profile and I keep in touch with people with the exciting new technologies of email and telephone. Amazing what actually talking to people does.
- alex_c 13y ago
  http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  I also use the exciting technologies of email and telephone, and talk to people. On top of that, I use Facebook to keep in touch with the remaining 90% of people I have weaker ties to, but once every half a year or sth. want to do some stuff together. One big value of Facebook is that it's a push system, not pull (and we know that push > pull). I can stay current with the life of hundreds of people I know without having to think much about it or check it manually. It scales better than e-mail/phone and allows different new ways to interact with people. And there's no reason not to use e-mail and phone along with using Facebook.
- sneak 13y ago
  As someone with the same email address for fifteen years, the same phone number for almost ten, and who deleted his facebook account five years ago, I can now say that facebook does it better. I made a new account this month and reconnected with people I haven't been in touch with for years. Not everyone is going to set up a mailing list you can subscribe to.