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by AlexandrB 1084 days ago
What's weird to me is posting any of this stuff to social media. It's great to have family photos with the great grandparents, but why does it have to go on Facebook?
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It goes on Facebook because that's how people communicate with a wider circle of friends. They don't care about the whole internet, but they want the friends that they do not see every week to stay involved in their lives. FB absolutely maintains those connections over years of minimal personal involvement.

You can debate whether that's a good idea. You can even debate whether you think the connection is real (but I think the feeling of a connection is enough to consider it "real"). You can certainly debate the use of these images in corporate machine-generated ads... but deal with the first paragraph: I think we understand why genuine people might still post on social media.

This is quite a huge improvement. Prior we'd have one relative take a picture and it would be lost to time.