FaceBook versus email . .

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FaceBook versus email . .

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Hate to betray my ignorance like this but why do people do/use FaceBook rather than simply email?

Is it that email requires a personal, directed, one-on-one exchange whereas FaceBook is more an "if I feel like it" exchange?

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Re: FaceBook versus email . .

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Marcus wrote:Is it that email requires a personal, directed, one-on-one exchange whereas FaceBook is more an "if I feel like it" exchange?
For the same reason that people use forums such as this one. The message goes out to whoever wants or happens to see it: friends, regulars, random users.
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Re: FaceBook versus email . .

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YMix wrote:
Marcus wrote:Is it that email requires a personal, directed, one-on-one exchange whereas FaceBook is more an "if I feel like it" exchange?
For the same reason that people use forums such as this one. The message goes out to whoever wants or happens to see it: friends, regulars, random users.
That doesn't quite fit . . people use forums like this to hang out a specific subject for comment by whomever. Is that then to say that people who use FaceBook are really hanging their lives out for whomever cares to comment?
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facebooks main social hook is that it recreates the old phone book type searching ability that allows you to lookup people and get their contact details without their consent.

most of the rest of the internet like email, is done by anti social geek coders who think the private contact id should only be deliberately handed out - their is no central registry of looking up an email address for people.

if your the type of person who has "lost contact" with many and wishes to re-find them, then facebook is the current best platform for that - personally i find that aspect of it diabolical :)
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I get far more well thought out and interesting responses from people on Facebook than I do on this forum. A lot of the responses are even from people with domain expertise.

It's also a great way to maintain a large social network. I have close to 1100 Facebook friends.

I would definitely have lost touch with a great many people if it were not for Facebook.
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I spent most of last year disconnected from Facebook; when it came time to plan a surprise party for a friend, it was so much easier to organize everything through facebook then by e-mail.

Other than that, well...
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Re: FaceBook versus email . .

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It's a generation thing: most of my friends are not on Facebook, all of my sons generation are.

The interface is really annoying and faux cutesy ("What's on your mind" A lot more than I am going to tell the world, mate, on a site with no respect for privacy)

I am staggered by the banality of what some people post. Why should we be interested?

The anonymity of a forum has downsides with trolls, but upsides to encourage frankness.
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