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by yuvadam 5100 days ago
Why do I need to invest time in "fine tuning my social graph"? What's in it for me? And is it even my social graph?

Facebook is not about "helping you connect to your friends", it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping commercials into your brain.

Any person that has not been completely brainwashed can see the fallacy in this kind of system.
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pyre 5100 days ago 

  > it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping
  > commercials into your brain.
You've just defined television. I think that you need to broaden your definition of Facebook if you want people to listen to you point. Facebook is more than just the local television company.
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briandear 5100 days ago
It's more like cable access. Occasionally, there'll be something interesting, but most of the time it's a bunch of people standing around trying to put on a show about stuff about which no one cares.
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mattgreenrocks 5100 days ago
Sorry, local television company + Reddit.

(Ouch, but FB is meme/funny picture city. Gross.)

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