Facebook is an attack on the open web

Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by ikeyany on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:02PM (#14463965)

That requires self control and a resilience to peer pressure, things we are encouraged to devalue for the sake of "followers".

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by wutbrodo on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:42PM (#14465588)

FWIW, I've used Facebook for I think 11 years now and I've never once seen anyone refer to or even remotely care about friend count.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by ikeyany on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:17AM (#14470044)

It's not necessarily the number of followers people obsess over, it's their validation.

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