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Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

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Re: Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

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Post by kmfrk »

_lex wrote: post #5

I guess facebook has truly become a utility: It's a semi-monopolist users hate, but they find it too hard to cut the cord. Sounds like AT&T, Comcast etc.

There's also the aspect of social pressure to use the platform.

I remember how quickly people stopped using IM and moved their entire online presence to Facebook, including the announcement and discussion of planned events.

As an IM user who never moved, it kinda sucked. :)

I guess you could say the same about the move from ICQ to Windows/MSN Messenger, though.

Re: Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

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Post by k-mcgrady »

harryf wrote: post #24
k-mcgrady wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "If anyone can leave Facebook it's teens. Their social networks aren't developed/mature enough where they have to depend on other people's social network preferences. Most teens could literally leave on a whim and bring most of their friend with them. I still remember how quick the exodus from ICQ to MSN was (and nobody hated ICQ.. it just kinda happened)." I think it's completely the opposite. It's not bringing y…

What's that saying? "It's not you that owns your possessions, it's your possessions that owns you" s/possessions/data/

Photos have too much sentimental value attached to them to think of them as just another 'possession'. They will provide value to you in 10 years, 25 years, and 50 years and can't be easily replaced.

Re: Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off

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Post by adregan »

I really wish facebook could help me manage the outer reaches of my social sphere—those I contact infrequently, whom I care about, but am not in constant communication. Something that would prod me to send a message or something to an old friend I hadn't remembered to email in the past month or so.

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Post by the_rosentotter »

gonehome wrote: post #22

I'm always a little confused why hacker news seems to love to hate facebook. Pretty weak posts like this appear and everyone in the comments gets to brag about how they don't have a facebook or facebook is on the way out etc.

If it makes you feel any better this was on the front page of reddit too.

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Post by rayiner »

gonehome wrote: post #22

I'm always a little confused why hacker news seems to love to hate facebook. Pretty weak posts like this appear and everyone in the comments gets to brag about how they don't have a facebook or facebook is on the way out etc.

Because it's an awful product that everyone nonetheless still uses. It's the Windows 95 of our time: popular entirely because it's popular.

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Post by Aloisius »

gonehome wrote: post #22

I'm always a little confused why hacker news seems to love to hate facebook. Pretty weak posts like this appear and everyone in the comments gets to brag about how they don't have a facebook or facebook is on the way out etc.

It is a social version of AOL; a walled, sanitized, child-proof, alternative internet kept clean and safe by its overseers. I can not think of anything a hacker would hate more outside of App stores on phones and the Great Firewall.

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Post by sliverstorm »

gonehome wrote: post #22

I'm always a little confused why hacker news seems to love to hate facebook. Pretty weak posts like this appear and everyone in the comments gets to brag about how they don't have a facebook or facebook is on the way out etc.

Depending on who you ask, Facebook has been "on the way out" for about 9 years now.
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