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Wow, what a narrow minded view you have.

>Pick up the phone, text, email, IM, irc, smoke signals, TALK ffs!

Here is a cute notion. Something you apparently are incapable of thinking of. Acquaintances. Friends. Not bffs. Just friends. And people you want to stay in contact with.

How many do you have? By your talk, I am guessing none. And if everyone would be like you then yes, no need for facebook because we all could just "pick up the phone" and talk to the one friend we all have.

It may sound strange to you, but many of us have a lot of friends and acquaintances. People we are still interested in to learn what is going on in their life but at the same time people we don't want to call as if we were bffs.

So, given that situation, what do you propose? Making like it is the 1990s and start mass emailing all these people what you normally just put up on facebook? Everyone in bcc so they don't see each other? Keeping the tone of the post as general as possible cause you can't mention any names? Great stuff. Especially since that is grad a spam as not everyone might want to read your stuff. But they will if you keep stuffing their inbox. When they go on facebook, they want to check up on everyone they added. When I go check my email I want to check my email and not start treating it like my facebook newsfeed!

So why don't all you mindless bashers pack it in, leave the internet altogether and start using your proposed smoke signals and enjoy your hipster elitism and privacy heaven. Just so you know, if I am seeing smoke, I am calling the fire department. So you might want to pick something even more private.



This is literally the worst comment I've read on HN, full of ad hominem and other logical fallacies.

Don't worry, we won't take your facebook away! It's gonna be okay! You sound like a junkie.




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