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by hnarn
3264 days ago
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Social interaction between human beings was also severely limited for most of human history as soon as geographical distance was introduced. You don't have to look further back than the massive emigrations to the US from Europe, it completely shattered extended families. The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured", what's always been missing is a well working and easy to use solution for it online. Facebook solves a problem, I don't even see a controversy in that statement. If they didn't, people wouldn't use it. |
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Again, the need is not manufactured. But the need for constantly in touch, is manufactured. No one before social network wanted that. There was normal mails, then we had telephones, emails etc etc..all of which have solved this pretty well, even across the globe.
But none of these are 24x7.
The need for 24x7 "networking" is manufactured.