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Facebook users have no idea theyre using the internet
- mtmail 12y agoIf I use WhapsApp or the weather app on my mobile or a VOIP phone I'm also using the internet but would never all it internet because that's a app and I (usually) don't care how data flows in the background.
- Sharlin 12y agoYeah. Internet is becoming more and more an implementation detail, an invisible but omnipresent infrastructure behind most telecommunication services instead of something you use explicitly - let alone "visit" like in the dialup days. Walled-garden worries notwithstanding, I don't think this trend is necessarily a bad thing.
- fit2rule 12y agoPeople don't know the definition of the word Internet. But then again, the Internet has become more and more AOL'ified ever since that long, long September .. What I find frustrating is that people in my circle are less and less inclined to send me an email and would rather just post a message on my wall. Its getting to be pretty infuriating, to be honest. Trouble is, I don't see any way around it - until some other competing service comes along to replace Facebook, just like happened with AOL and Compuserve. But I think we're a long way from that.
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- xtrumanx 12y agoThere are ads where I live by telcom companies that say "Use Facebook without the internet". I always assumed that it used SMS or USSD but can't figure out what the UX for something like that would be like.
- salibhai 12y agoWow, this is very interesting. Adds to the debate about whether facebook providing internet to the so called third world is self serving.