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Re:Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen ... by bsamuels on Monday November 25, 2013 @01:13AM (#6792766)
Facebook revolves around making people interesting and providing people-based content to consume.

Reddit revolves around people finding interesting content and providing it to others to be consumed with some commentary on the side.

I'm not sure how they're comparable. Sure, reddit has a community aspect, but it's really just a side dish compared to the content (links).

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Re:Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen ... by threeseed on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:11AM (#6792897)
This simply isn't true.

Many of the subreddits (e.g. the ones dedicated to cities or schools) are far more about the community than the content.

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Re:Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen ... by MarkTee on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:02AM (#6793146)
> Sure, reddit has a community aspect, but it's really just a side dish compared to the content (links).

Maybe if you stick to the default subreddits that are composed entirely of memes.

The main reason that I use Reddit is for the discussion; I highly, highly doubt that you're going to find /r/askscience-calibre conversations on Facebook.

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Re:Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen ... by magic_haze on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:08AM (#6792890)
OTOH, subreddits like IAMA, AskScience and ELI5 are fairly significant parts of reddit. In fact, most of the top items in /all are memes that refer back to things that happen within Reddit, so I'm not sure the links to external websites are nearly as important as the community these days.
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