I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

Re:I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier by jslabovitz on Sunday December 02, 2018 @03:52PM (#18584503)

I just hosted a small house concert last night for about 20 people; the age range was 18-50, I reckon. I put out a sheet of paper with spaces for names & contact info, for folks who wanted to be notified for future shows, and intentionally left the contact method open -- I figured if they wanted a group text, or a FB msg, I could do that.

I was surprised to find that every person who signed up wrote their email address.

So you may just might be right.

Granted, this is a rural area (West Virginia, US) and there's far less incessant use of smartphones and the like. So my experience might not apply to more urban places.

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Re:I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier by lowercased on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:35PM (#18584696)

I have no idea how I'd give you my 'facebook address' - you'd look me up, but it might be private, or you might find the other one of me with my same name, or... I dunno. Problems.

If you send them an email with your FB page in it, a certain % will follow then, because it's a way to get some more passive updates when they want.

EDIT: 30 years ago, everyone would have given you a street mailing address, even though some possibly had faxes or may have wanted a phone call or to be paged when you had updates.

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Re:I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier by thaumasiotes on Sunday December 02, 2018 @06:59PM (#18585372)

It seems pretty likely that the first person who signed up wrote their email address, and everyone else saw it and assumed that space was for email addresses.

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