Facebook is a tool. And like all tools, its value is defined by how you choose to use it.
Two years ago it was a worthless, annoying site with news feed full of mommies talking about their kids' snot.
So I engaged with the site to make it my own.
Today, because of relationships sustained and informed by Facebook, I'm doing Crossfit, visiting old friends in person more frequently, sending packages to new and old friends who are deployed to Afghanistan, and joining events like Tough Mudder and GoRuck Challenges.
I think often about the privacy issues, the time suck that it can be, but I also have to think about positive changes that have come about because of the way I've used this particular tool. For me FB it's a bigtime net positive.
"The article is about the tendencies in communication due to Facebook."
Yup, but my point, poorly made perhaps, is that you define your communication tendencies, and FB is just another communication tool. Not vice versa as the author intimates.
Two years ago it was a worthless, annoying site with news feed full of mommies talking about their kids' snot.
So I engaged with the site to make it my own.
Today, because of relationships sustained and informed by Facebook, I'm doing Crossfit, visiting old friends in person more frequently, sending packages to new and old friends who are deployed to Afghanistan, and joining events like Tough Mudder and GoRuck Challenges.
I think often about the privacy issues, the time suck that it can be, but I also have to think about positive changes that have come about because of the way I've used this particular tool. For me FB it's a bigtime net positive.