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Re:Against Facebook by insickness on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:33PM (#16969953)
The social value lost is one-on-one development of friendships. Let's say I find something interesting. Without social media, I might share this one-on-one with my friends. I'll text a link to Joe, email a link to Jane and share it in person when I see Mike. Instead, with social media, I post it on my timeline. Since I'm 'friends' with Joe, Jane and Mike on Facebook, I won't share it with them individual and I lose out on actual human interaction and friendship-building. When a friends shares something with you individual, you feel like they thought of you specifically. But when you post it on your timeline, no one feels special.

Due to this, I've stopped sharing everything on social media, except for the stupidest, lowest common-denominator stuff, and even that I will first consider sharing with individuals instead of social media. I've made a spreadsheet of all my friends I want to keep in touch with along with my commonalities with those friends (music, art, literature, psychology, etc.) I send them things individually when I come across them instead of posting on Facebook.

Re:Against Facebook by autokad on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:19PM (#16970465)
I sometimes use the share as message feature. Now I rarely share something on my timeine, and my timeline is becoming space as time goes on.
Re:Against Facebook by majewsky on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:32PM (#16971249)
> my timeline is becoming space as time goes on

Is this a typo, or extremely poetic and I'm just failing to parse it?

Re:Against Facebook by autokad on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @08:30AM (#16976258)
oops :) meant to be sparse