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Re:Facebook – You are the Product by michaelmrose on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @10:51PM (#15033421)
How is your guess about other people useful info?
Re:Facebook – You are the Product by EGreg on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:45PM (#15033663)
How is the parent comment's guess about 100% of people having email useful?
Re:Facebook – You are the Product by pessimizer on Thursday August 17, 2017 @12:09AM (#15033748)
That it is true, and a communication system?
Re:Facebook – You are the Product by skinnymuch on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:41AM (#15034292)
But if many don't use email much, how does it help? I barely check my personal email. And no one in my normal life knows my business email. Once in while a family member or friend will send something unimportant via email. Either I never see it. Or I see it a week or month afterward. My career relates strongly to the internet too.
Re:Facebook – You are the Product by michaelmrose on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:50PM (#15040855)
If you don't respond to email and I don't communicate with you in person or on the phone I assume you are uninterested personally or professionally and take my friendship or business elsewhere.

Answering email is really a pretty normal expectation.

Re:Facebook – You are the Product by EGreg on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:57PM (#15049264)
So is facebook for friendship lol

If you ask for their email and they offer to friend you, and you decline, should they assume you don't want to be in the loop for things?

Your arguments for email as a platform equally apply to facebook. Yeah email is decentralized and oldsr, but that stuff doesn't matter to regular people who want the easiest tool for the job.