Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook

Re:Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook by jerf on Monday November 01, 2010 @12:08AM (#1855329)

"but how many possible connections have "you" (a typical FB user) missed because of time spent on Facebook instead of doing other stuff?"

Uh, "zero"? Maybe some people compulsively stare at Facebook for hours at a time and decide against going out tonight to click "refresh" instead, and I suppose there's always a marginal effect, but most people just stuff Facebook in their downtime or other extra time, from what I can see. Obsessives will obsess anyhow so even that's probably not a problem.

And then of course you stack this up against the real connections renewed that would have expired and your argument is just not credible.

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Re:Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook by philwelch on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:02AM (#1855634)

In fact, Facebook if anything encourages you to go out tonight, or to do something interesting with your life rather than just sitting on Facebook, because you see your friends going out and doing interesting things and then posting pictures or talking about it on Facebook. (Assuming, of course, that you have interesting friends.)

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Re:Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook by alex_c on Monday November 01, 2010 @12:35PM (#1857066)

I ask because I honestly don't know. I have friends who fall under both usage scenarios, but these are just anecdotes and/or extremes. I haven't seen any actual data on the effects of Facebook, either positive or negative.

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