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Originally Posted by calvin-c
It can be hard to distinguish a hidden agenda of the sites from the agenda developed by the users of the sites. The pressure to broadcast personal details is extreme. If it's from the site then it's big brother-ish. If it's from the people using the sites then it's peer pressure. Either way I find it offensive. Obviously I'm not a Twit-and I'm only on Facebook because my kids are. (I still don't know what they find offensive about picking up the phone or emailing me, but it's pretty obvious that they find something offensive about it. Presumably they do read the emails I send them but the only way I know what they're doing is from Facebook. They're adults so it's their choice, but I really don't understand it. Or like it.)
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I think many people see Facebook as a property or a possession. They refer to it as my Facebook, not my Facebook account etc. It appears to them as a little tract of land on the internet where they have the idea that they are in control. No different from phone or email contacts, except there is for some a perceived value in making you go to their Facebook page.
Helen