By TeMPOraL
(Please don’t take it personally; I want to comment on a generic phenomenon.)
There is a pattern I see in every HN thread about Facebook. It consists of comments structured like this: “I haven’t had a Facebook account for [1 year - ever]. I don’t see what’s useful about it. I think relationships maintained by it are bad / artificial / unnecessary.” Am I the only one who notices that comments of the form “I don’t use X therefore I have an opinion on X” are of… limited usefulness?
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> I found that any event worth going to the organizer would simply call, message or email you because they wanted you to be there.
Facebook invitations are equivalent to the forms above.
> People vastly underestimate the power of their real social network
Facebook is as real as any other social network.
> and what friendship or love can do to motivate people to maintain relationships.
If you’re my friend or love interest, why are you making it more difficult for me to contact you?
> Some advice for anyone who plans on closing their Facebook account: scrape any photos with you in them (and anyone you have an affinity for), phone numbers and the big one: birthdays. My calendar reminds me when someone has a birthday and their phone numbers sit in my contacts list.
One of the most pathetic things people do on-line is putting a fake birthday into Facebook (and before that, into the IMs they were using), to see who actually remembers the real date. It always makes me wonder, what they’re trying to prove this way? That some people don’t care about them enough to remember the date? Well guess what, nobody is that fucking important. Your parents and your spouse may remember the date, but why should anyone else?
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476531
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