“Not unsurprisingly, nearly every person I actually know something about here on facebook is unimaginably socially isolated. Some have admitted that they no longer engage in voice conversations. Can you imagine such a state?

Obviously, then, the idea that this is a social network is at least partly backwards: whatever sociality is happening here includes a subnet of pretend sociality for people who are either incapable of or unwilling to form social relationships. Although this is a subset of the population, and is probably peculiar to my audience, I suspect it is a large subset.

It’s worth bearing this in mind when thinking about the content.”

— infraheard