Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)

Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by fineline on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:37PM (#15784626)

Are you kidding? I'm an X'er and my parents are boomers, and I can assure you we all had an absolute ball before Facebook came along. "Not going out in the evenings to see friends, sitting watching TV, having narrow social lives" - seriously? Maybe in your family / community / culture, but not mine, and not many, many others too.

I'd even be tempted to speculate that those of us who aren't Facebook addicts are the ones who are able to socialise just fine without it, thank you very much, if it weren't for the fact that I know plenty of good-living, fun-loving Facebookers too.

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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by bunderbunder on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:23AM (#15787977)

Same here, though I guess I'm now considered early millennial. Work/school nights we stayed in, but it was only solitary when there was homework. Otherwise it was cooking together, playing games together, etc.

Weekends, we went to someone's house and just hung around all day. Which house was a rotating thing, so nobody was stuck hosting all the time. Adults sat around in the kitchen drinking wine or whatever, and kids ran in feral packs through the neighborhood.

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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by jamesrcole on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:33AM (#15786319)

What geographic area is that?

I was born in Australia in the late 70s and the picture you paint of pre/post Facebook doesn't ring true to my experience.

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Re:Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) by fineline on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:21PM (#15793112)

Midlands of the UK, then various places around Europe, then Australia (since well before Facebook). I think we're probably seeing "the plural of anecdote is not data" in effect?

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