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Re: Facebook Should Pay All of Us

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Society kinda does. If all your peers use it to communicate, you would be a hermit if you did not participate.

I don't participate and am not a hermit. When I want to communicate, I use the phone or SMS. If my peers want to contact me, they use the same. My wife has an account. Sometimes I'll scroll through it for a bit, just to see. It seems like people mostly use it as a semi-broadcast medium, rather than a communication mechanism amongst a tight group of peers. The less armchair punditry in my life the better. If people li…

Of course it depends, that's why I explicitly said "if all your peers use it".

Re: Facebook Should Pay All of Us

#112
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't participate and am not a hermit. When I want to communicate, I use the phone or SMS. If my peers want to contact me, they use the same. My wife has an account. Sometimes I'll scroll through it for a bit, just to see. It seems like people mostly use it as a semi-broadcast medium, rather than a communication mechanism amongst a tight group of peers. The less armchair punditry in my life the better. If people li…

Of course it depends, that's why I explicitly said "if all your peers use it".

All my peers use it.

Maybe if all your peers use it exclusively, then you'd be out of the loop, but I suspect that is very rarely the case.

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