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Re:Publishing: The peer-review scam by untilHellbanned on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @09:07PM (#8665664)
Great quote. It gets me thinking about Facebook. FB is assuredly a massive technical solution to a social problem. I get Bruce's sentiment, but there are exceptions to this rule.
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Re:Publishing: The peer-review scam by adiM on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:29PM (#8665996)
And what social problem does FB solve?
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Re:Publishing: The peer-review scam by Otik on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:46AM (#8666466)
It's pretty good for staying in touch with people who you wouldn't regularly contact on an individual basis.
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Re:Publishing: The peer-review scam by brc on Thursday November 27, 2014 @05:35AM (#8666716)
Yes, the social solution that Facebook presents is ideal for keeping in touch with a loose or geographically diverse set of real life friends. It is a technical solution to an admittedly simple social problem but a solution it is. Prior to Facebook I used to send graph emails, people would leave jobs, change email, etc etc. then came the cc replies, all out of order. A mess, solved well with Facebook, ad still really the only useful feature.
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