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What I find to be sad is the number of people over 50 STARTING to use Facebook. People who have spent 50+ years interacting with other humans in real life have
by dpcan 17y ago
What I find to be sad is the number of people over 50 STARTING to use Facebook. People who have spent 50+ years interacting with other humans in real life have decided, all of a sudden, that they prefer the anonymity of Facebook.
What does this really say about human interactions?
Is it overrated?
Have people simply been "putting-up-with" dealing with people in real life forever because they had no other choice?
I find it sad that the older generation is abandoning their long-lived ways of actually interacting in real life.
PERSONALLY: I hope the next generation starts a movement of abandoning this artificial way of interacting.
- dsil 17y agoFacebook is not anonymous. That is enforced and by design, and fairly important in distinguishing it from other social networks. The rest of your points are still fair though.
- tokenadult 17y agoFacebook is not anonymous. That is enforced I'm an over-fifty user of Facebook, and I've noticed that a lot of my friends (some over fifty, and some not) have figured out how to fake their names in various ways. Among my friends, it is more often women than men who go by fake names, for the usual Internet security concerns that women have about cyberstalkers.
- kdw 17y agoMy facebook account has precisely nothing in common with my real information. It's all totally fake info that I use to play scrabble with my dentist, who also has a completely fake account.
- patio11 17y agothey prefer the anonymity of Facebook. They don't prefer anonymity -- that is Facebook's USP, that it is real people who you actually know. My mom uses it to keep in touch with family. It is easier for her than email, since she gets locked out of her email account every few years and loses her addressbook (like most of the people in it). However, Uncle Steve will always be Uncle Steve on Facebook. There's something new and exciting for her about people she cares about every day -- a new photo of someone's baby, another picture uploaded from that wedding she couldn't attend, news that a cousin's son got accepted to Yale. (Noteworthy for the discussion: my family is strewn all over the globe, and my has medical reasons which prevent her from seeing everyone as much as she would like. From her perspective its not more artificial than the telephone or letters, but it is a heck of a lot more convenient.)