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• Are Your Kids Reading Reddit.com & Should You be Worried?

  March 28, 2011 at 6:52pm

  Has anyone else noticed, that in the screenshots, the only link the person taking the screenshots actually clicked on is the one named “Dude! Look at this child porn I found..”? From the context it looks like a joke link that goes to a C&H cartoon, but still very entertaining that it was the only one clicked.

• Are Your Kids Reading Reddit.com & Should You be Worried?

  March 28, 2011 at 6:30pm

  In reply to Showtime.

  @showtime

  Don’t let someones facebook page cloud your view of them. What people put on facebook isn’t barley represetitive of themselves. If you’re not versed if facebook, taking anything you see there at face value it any easy mistake to make.

  Facebook is more of a performance than real interaction. When something is posted on facebook, you either have to purposely restrict it to a certain subset of people, and the default is to broadcast it to (at least) every “friend” your account has. It turns discussions on facebook into the least common denominator quickly. That usually means upbeat, mildly interesting, shallow remarks. When my best friend was going though a breakup, the most he ever posted of facebook were a handful of passive aggressive things that even I had a hard time understanding even though we were roommates and he had already told me about it offline. The website also hinders real discussion (at least, for facebook discussions in public), with short character limits on posts, no real threading, and a fast churn rate, even if someone does start a interesting discussion it is lost into the abyss very quickly.

  Basically, facebook’s design and social pressures (amplified by the design) mean you wind up with a bunch of trite posts. Those of us using it know this and rely on other mediums for other conversations, but as an outsider I warn you: don’t assume someones presense on facebook is representative of them in the least.