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Re:Ten days and nights unplugged by weland on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:59AM (#6507886)
> Firstly, Facebook is supposed to provide information about you.

I thought it was supposed to help me stay in touch with people and stuff, like they claim on their homepage. I'm adding false information related to my location to confuse their nosey advertising probe.

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Re:Ten days and nights unplugged by sliverstorm on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:13PM (#6510486)
I thought it was supposed to help me stay in touch with people and stuff

I'm not really a FB fan or anything, but the idea is you stay in touch in part by providing that information about your life. Getting snippets of friend's ongoing lives helps sustain (or maybe just slow the decay of) rapport, even in their physical absence. If it was just a platform that allowed you to message your friends, it would be no different from an email list.

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