[akater]

There may be different aspects to programs like this. They may provide calls, they may provide some other features that are significant to understand their influence on users but non-obvious to non-users.

I never encountered FaceTime and I have avoided Facebook since I firnt saw it. Also, curiously, I've recently observed a group of like-minded people divided, in a fairly confrontational manner, unable to listen to each other, with one side being, according to my observanions, overrepresented on Facebook, compared to another, and the other overrepresented on Twitter.

This can be attributed to “echo chamber” phenomenon, or to platform preference by leaders of opinions. But my null hypothesis now is, Facebook actually changes its users to being worse communicators, unlike Twitter, and it contributes to users' feelings of isolation, significantly. I'm sure details of means of communication matter.

[Talanes]

FaceTime is not a Facebook product. It's also bad form to accuse others of being poor communicators while ignoring all obvious social cues to continue on with a preformed rant against an unrelated entity to the topic at hand.

[xigency]

I think you might gain something from this article for its actual content. If it helps, replace Facebook/Twitter with Hacker News and FaceTime with whatever video or phone calls you use. Or engage in some suspension of disbelief to get to the real point. The author talks about ways of really connecting with people.

[ohyeshedid]

Most of your points in this post apply directly to your own previous post.