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@starbreaker I quit facebook too, but the network effects aren't to be ignored. FB have been very successful at instigating themselves into the center of social activity for a lot of folks, and asking people to give up those connections is a big ask.
Also, it's particularly harder for people who are already being asked to do a lot of emotional labor to maintain social connections. Quitting FB is much harder if you're the "social representative" for your family.
@cercerilla@starbreaker I've never had a facebook account, but I often rely on my friends who do have facebook accounts to relay critical university-related information to me from a facebook.. group? or sth...
Even some official announcements, when students and not employees are responsible for making them, are on facebook instead of e-mail, website, or RSS. Many things that used to have websites now only have a facebook page. Surviving on university without using facebook is hard.
@Wolf480pl@cercerilla@starbreaker This is another reason why a Facebook account is so useful. It's not only huge in social connections, but organisational connections as well.
A great deal of grassroots activity within municipalities is organised via FB as well; not being involved there can mean you no longer can connect with other activists and advocates.
As useful as FB might be for activists, organizing on FB makes me nervous from an opsec standpoint. I don't believe that anything is truly private on Facebook. Not even private groups.
Let’s say everyone in your town hung out at “Burgers & Malts” for connecting, but you decided “Shakes & Cakes” was better for all the right reasons. You may get a friend or two to join you, but the AnarchoPunk Rebel Alliance will still only meet at B&M
This is due to the social nature of humans; they gather in groups and tend to favour familiarity, so once something is established, that's how it tends to remain.
@ayachan@cercerilla@Wolf480pl That's not a bad analogy, but I would suggest that having everybody congregate in one location makes connection unnecessarily difficult because there are too many people trying to have conversations.
@starbreaker@Wolf480pl@cercerilla I've discussed before why having too many splintered factions with full power apiece is problematic (it's the same reason why I am a communist and believe in central organisation), so I won't get huge into that.
What I will say is that having everyone in the same place allows everyone to work together easier and keep themselves organised better. Think about how hard it would be to travel from place to place and connect over distances in my analogy.
@ayachan@starbreaker@cercerilla from what I understood, in your analogy, Shakes & Cakes was across the street, or at least in the same town as Burgers & Malts
Also, it's good to be able to gather a few (max 8) people in a quiet space to talk without others interfering
Plus, you need to consider that people may not want to go across the street. We cannot rely on our own feelings to determine how others around us might feel. To do so is a fallacy in social understanding.
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@ayachan @starbreaker @cercerilla from what I understood, in your analogy, Shakes & Cakes was across the street, or at least in the same town as Burgers & Malts
Also, it's good to be able to gather a few (max 8) people in a quiet space to talk without others interfering