It may be that the article correctly reports the majority experience of Facebook users. I try to be an outlier, and to bring in part of the Hacker News culture

It may be that the article correctly reports the majority experience of Facebook users. I try to be an outlier, and to bring in part of the Hacker News culture of recommending good links rather than crap links to my Facebook wall. If I see crap links from my friends on my Facebook wall, then I reply by calling out the crap in them (linking to Snopes or a better news source for debunking, or identifying bias in certain sources, or whatever). Several of my friends have told me that they appreciate that some of the sources they have heard about (from other friends of theirs, no doubt) are crap, and many have told me that now my posts to Facebook are essentially their news aggregator. I get stories from all over about all kinds of topics, and I post those that I find most interesting to my Facebook wall, with visibility set to "friends only" by default. The best stuff I see over on Facebook from my friends is one source of some of what I submit here to Hacker News. I try to build good online communities by learning from other good online communities. My subset of all the bajillion posts on Facebook is unlike anyone else's, but it works for me. AFTER EDIT: Encouraging, as I do both here on Hacker News and on Facebook, informative disagreement, I'd be very delighted to hear an explanation for the early downvote this comment received. What did you not like about it? How does your experience with Facebook differ from mine, and what is your view of the article kindly submitted here?