Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant...
by runarberg on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:38AM
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One grain of sand does not make a pile.
Adding one more grain of sand still doesn’t make it a pile.
Keep adding grains, any one grain will not make a pile.
Yet after a lot of grains you still have a pile.
I think you are engaging in the same kind of fallacy. The individual grains that make a pile might be insignificant, but the pile definitely is. After you’ve spotted that you have a pile it is of interest to know how the grains got there. Facebook is definitely a pile. What Facebook does adds to the pile, what people do with Facebook adds to the pile. Seeing this pile and seeing people keep adding to it is worthy of interest.
Adding one more grain of sand still doesn’t make it a pile.
Keep adding grains, any one grain will not make a pile.
Yet after a lot of grains you still have a pile.
I think you are engaging in the same kind of fallacy. The individual grains that make a pile might be insignificant, but the pile definitely is. After you’ve spotted that you have a pile it is of interest to know how the grains got there. Facebook is definitely a pile. What Facebook does adds to the pile, what people do with Facebook adds to the pile. Seeing this pile and seeing people keep adding to it is worthy of interest.