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Re:The relationship between social media use and well-being by city41 on Monday April 10, 2017 @07:11PM (#14083368)
I have had my Facebook account deleted now for about a year now. A major motivation in doing so was when an ex-coworker of mine and my Dad got in a very heated argument. It was incredibly awkward and could have even harmed my professional career had it been some other coworkers/ex-coworkers I was friends with.

Facebook thrusts humans into very unnatural environments and just says "have at it"

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Re:The relationship between social media use and well-being by RodericDay on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:58PM (#14084745)
Arguing is very natural and we would do a whole lot more of it if we lived in real democracies where our votes mattered and had serious consequences (as opposed to a once-every-four-years thing, while everything else is left up to "the market").

You can't both have your opinion matter, and disagreements of opinion not matter.

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Re:The relationship between social media use and well-being by city41 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:34AM (#14085110)
However, my Father and an ex-coworker of mine socializing is not even remotely natural.
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Re:The relationship between social media use and well-being by RodericDay on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:55AM (#14087193)
If they were voting in city council it would be. As I've said before, we now vote very rarely once in a blue moon, and leave everything else up to the market.

So you never confront each other about their opinions directly, you just let the market mediate for you.

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