Re:The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderat...
by bufferoverflow on Friday August 24, 2018 @02:14PM
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> they were already inclined to isolate themselves in meatspace, why would cyberspace be any different?
Because people generally "friend" everyone in sight. I got probably 50+ FB friends from work, the people I wouldn't call friends IRL. There's still some unhealthy obsession with the friend counts.
When I used FB, I did the bi-annual purge, unfriended everyone I hadn't talked to in months. Got some weird reactions too!
I agree with you, FB will likely implement/force the echo chambers in the end, the current open social network isn't working, and banning one side will lead to a massive loss of ad revenue.
Because people generally "friend" everyone in sight. I got probably 50+ FB friends from work, the people I wouldn't call friends IRL. There's still some unhealthy obsession with the friend counts.
When I used FB, I did the bi-annual purge, unfriended everyone I hadn't talked to in months. Got some weird reactions too!
I agree with you, FB will likely implement/force the echo chambers in the end, the current open social network isn't working, and banning one side will lead to a massive loss of ad revenue.