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Re: [/.] The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

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On 2014-03-16 10:08, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> Facebook is the opposite of what the Internet should be. The
> Internet's #1 advantage on earlier computer networks like AOL or
> Compuserve is *decentralization*.
> 
> Give the Internet to the masses and WTF do they do in just a few
> years? They flock to a centralized, closed network and lock
> themselves in.

What proportion of Internet users use Face***k?

It's not reasonable to expect average users to acquire the kind of
in-depth knowledge which took geeks years to acquire. Perhaps the best
we can do is adopt a less-savvy friend or acquantance and mentor them.
(Having said that, I recently tried this with a PhD friend, he now knows
some of the advantages of using Linux but it's clear that he'll still
buy whatever his wife tells him to, and she bases her wisdom on what her
friends have read in oligarch-owned media. So YMMV...)

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[/.] The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-03-16 11:08 +0100
  Re: [/.] The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-16 10:51 +0000
    Re: [/.] The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-16 16:01 +0000

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