Facebook Fraud

[Aristotle]

Wonder if I did that to you! Facebook is too corrupt and propogates too many bad attitudes for me to stomach creating an account there!

I salute you. You're making the tough sacrifice for us all. I wish I could do that.

[Rosuav]

One of my most hated sayings is "if you can't beat them, join them"... much prefer "don't be a part of the problem" so I'm not creating a Facebook account unlelss they reform (ha!) or it becomes a legal requirement

I technically have an account, but I basically never log it in. Anyone who posts updates on Facebook is missing me. But given that they probably miss a large proportion of people who actually *do* follow them, it's not that much different.

My biggest beef with most forms of social networking, definitely including Facebook, is that it's really REALLY hard to find back any serious discussion point. With blogs, linking to people's posts is normal and expected. With mailing lists, it's usually easy to link to a particular post in an archive (this does depend on the exact software used, but Mailman + Pipermail makes it easy) - PEPs often cite python-dev/ideas posts, eg PEP 461. Bug trackers invariably make it easy to link to specific bugs, and often to specific comments on those bugs. But Facebook is designed for the ephemeral. Have you ever tried to hunt something down that was posted over a year ago? To share it, with a link to a specific comment? It may be possible (though I'm not sure it even is), but it's definitely not easy. And that means words are less valuable and less valued than they are in a place where people stand by what they say to a greater extent.