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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Why could we do all this just fine, about 10 years ago?
At that time, if I wanted to tell something to many people at once, I wrote an e-mail, and selected my "everybody but the uncle I hate" e-mail list as a recipient.
Why is it expected that I now use a third-party website to announce stuff such as this?
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It isn't necessarily. It is just one option among many.
However, if most of the people I want to communicate with are on Facebook and they don't or won't check their email, then sending an email doesn't actually accomplish the job of communicating anything with anyone.
You fit the tool to the job at hand.
But as I said previously, having the comments feature has unintended positive consequences.
I have been on the 'net since the old days of BBS, for what it is worth. I have been pulled kicking and screaming into having more accounts on things than I would like. But the masses won' t change their habits for me, so if I want to get information to them, I have to do it the way they expect to receive such information.
Or, in short: social inertia.