Facebook is really not built to facilitate intelligent conversation, is it?

[randomness]

There's a conversation going on in a Facebook group I'm in that may someday become my personal Exhibit A for why Facebook is a terrible place to have any kind of substantive, meaningful conversation.

I'm not linking to it now because I don't need an Exhibit A at the moment. Moreover, pointing large numbers of people at the conversation who have no connection to the group will probably not be helpful.

Comments

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I agree with the basic, technical lack of ability to keep coherent conversations.

But the whole interface practically begs for the ten-second, off-the-cuff comment which is not something that facilitates thoughtful conversation, either.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

But the whole interface practically begs for the ten-second, off-the-cuff comment which is not something that facilitates thoughtful conversation, either.

Yes. It's definitely the wrong tool for the task.