Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by lotsofcows on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:40PM
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Christ, I'm the opposite. I like Facebook for getting all the banal minutiae about kids and holidays and who's fucking whom out of the way so on the rare occasion I hook up with friends we can talk about whatever it was that drew us together in the first place.
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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by wybiral on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:38PM
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Back when FB didn't exist... Friends didn't just talk about that kind of stuff either. That's like the typical smalltalk you make with people you don't really know, not conversations you have with friends.
To me FB just seems like an extra dose of that unnecessary smalltalk mixed with self-promotion with the only real benefit being basically an address book.
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by lotsofcows on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:55PM
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Before Facebook existed, if I didn't see someone for a year, I could pretty much guarantee I wouldn't see them again (barring odd coincidences).
These days I can arrange to hook up with an old colleague through Facebook because of Facebook and via Facebook and know exactly where s/he is in terms of work/relationships/kids, without the social pressure to spout the traditional cliches.