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0 points18pfsmt13y ago0 comments

While I generally agree with you, I think people like us are somewhat to blame for not providing an alternative to FB that is as easy to use. I also blame my friends, relatives and acquaintances that have been so easily seduced, but I'm not sure that's fair.

Thankfully, my parents are too old to have any interest in FB, and my siblings are equally as cynical (aka "weird").

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saraid21613y ago· 1 in thread

> I also blame my friends, relatives and acquaintances that have been so easily seduced, but I'm not sure that's fair.

It's really not. That's like blaming people for driving cars before autonomous cars came out.

nsmartt13y ago

It's more like blaming people for eating at Chick-fil-A.

They're supporting a company that is, in our eyes, committing a moral wrong. The difference, in the case of Facebook, is that they aren't necessarily aware of this moral wrong.

tambourine_man13y ago

Sure we are to blame, we are the ones that know better and have the knowledge to build something else. That's what I meant when I said we failed to provide a decent competitive way to share stuff.

The hardest part in my opinion is not the users experience per se, Facebook's not that great. It's getting the traction and the cool factor that's needed to beat the chicken-egg conundrum (I use FB because everybody else does).

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