Facebook hate, again
Jan. 22nd, 2014 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI posted a few weeks ago about how much I hate Facebook for real interaction.
Here's a great video that talks in more detail about the problems with the Facebook feed. It's really worth your six minutes.
I still find FB useful for many things (co-worker discussions, following Arisia discussion threads, etc), but it's an awful way to share non-ephemeral content. I only just noticed that someone added me a while back to a group for former LJ users. Screw that; I'm no former LJ user, and if LJ pulls the plug, I'll find the best home I can elsewhere (I'm already cross-posting to DW, of course). Give me real content to read any day, and content I can control, whether through my LJ feed, my RSS reader, or some other method. If I wanted someone to curate what I read, I'd be on Reddit and Metafilter, but FB has no clue what actually interests me.
Here's a great video that talks in more detail about the problems with the Facebook feed. It's really worth your six minutes.
I still find FB useful for many things (co-worker discussions, following Arisia discussion threads, etc), but it's an awful way to share non-ephemeral content. I only just noticed that someone added me a while back to a group for former LJ users. Screw that; I'm no former LJ user, and if LJ pulls the plug, I'll find the best home I can elsewhere (I'm already cross-posting to DW, of course). Give me real content to read any day, and content I can control, whether through my LJ feed, my RSS reader, or some other method. If I wanted someone to curate what I read, I'd be on Reddit and Metafilter, but FB has no clue what actually interests me.
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Date: 2014-01-22 04:47 pm (UTC)Maybe that's what you're talking from what you're used to here, but - I subscribe, I get the posts, whenever somebody writes; actually I thought that's what fb has mostly been known for (and useful).
Well, but that's capitalistic behavior - make you pay for things which are natural.
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Date: 2014-01-22 05:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-01-23 07:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-23 08:00 pm (UTC)You need to give it your LJ password, but you can change it to a temporary one first, then change it back after a few minutes.
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Date: 2014-01-23 08:36 pm (UTC)