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I don't understand. I asked for a use case. You gave me a glittering generality. What concrete task that i might desire to achieve in life can be done with Facebook but not the other tools?

Pretty much everyone who has a facebook has a phone, so I can communicate just fine with Facebook users



None, but evidently the point I was trying to make was a bit too elusive — it is the userbase and concentration of information it forms that is itself the use case or desirable feature. FB's walled garden IS the tool.

I don't myself agree with it - I'm in your camp, thinking there're far better existant tools out there. I just know from my own experience I'm 'missing out' on stuff shared or put in there by people locked into a domain I do not myself have access to.




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