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> Shocking, young people don't care if others know that they went out to dinner with some friends

But, it seems like they do care. They want others to know they went for dinner with friends, or settled a bill for brunch. It seems like they're obsessed with finding ways to extract the most social presence from normal everyday activities.

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It's enabled by default. It isn't an "obsession", it was something the company threw in there and that users don't care enough about to disable. I'm sure usage of it would vanish almost instantly if something like the actual $ amount was published in addition to the message.

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