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> In fact I've thought on multiple occasions that someone is hiding something if they don't have one.

I feel the same about people who do use facebook, when they take pictures of me and others who are not on "The Social Network", then they put those on facebook for others to see with other personal information without concent, they don't inform me about their comments regarding those pictures.

For all I know those people could be making fun of me for not being on facebook, not being social enough, having unfashionable clothes etc. From my perspective those people have something to hide, they share information in closed groups, refuse to email me those photos and waive it away like it's too much work, I have even experienced this with some of my relatives which saddens me alot. I'm not forcing them to use any specific website, forcing others to do that is nasty, it's no different than forcing others to smoke by the means of social pressure.

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Expecting people to take an extra step to fit your needs (email) is really almost no different from asking them to share on another platform IMHO. They aren't hiding from you, in fact I'd put money on the table that they'd happily invite you into their group or you'd have access to the photos simply by being their friend on FB. You can't walk outside the bar then complain that none of your friends want to stand in the window and relay everything happening to you or get mad they might be talking about you when you can just walk right back in.

> it's no different than forcing others to smoke by the means of social pressure

Yeah... no different, except one of them causes cancer but sure, no different.

> Expecting people to take an extra step to fit your needs (email) is really almost no different from asking them to share on another platform IMHO.

Email is not a platform, I think you are confusing it with gmail.

> You can't walk outside the bar then complain that none of your friends want to stand in the window and relay everything happening to you or get mad they might be talking about you when you can just walk right back in.

This analogy doesn't stand because such pictures that I were talking about are more often than not are taken in the bar settings or other festivities. Obviously if I were walking outside I couldn't be on the picture could I. And it's not all of my friends that's the point, being forced to smoke even passively harms your health, being forced to be on facebook harms your privacy - that was my point.

> > it's no different than forcing others to smoke by the means of social pressure

> Yeah... no different, except one of them causes cancer but sure, no different.

And Facebook causes harm to people in other ways. It's an overly dramatic way of making the point, but the point is that people using Facebook doesn't just affect them -- it affects anyone in their social circle.

There is this article: Facebook and Twitter 'harm young people's mental health'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/popular-soci...

> except one of them causes cancer

I see Facebook as a type of cancer so...

Obviously the point of the analogy was that Facebook's effects are harmful, too, just like those of smoking.

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