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

[gingicat]

It reminds me a great deal of Usenet. This is nice when one is trying to resurrect alt.callahans, but not so much in this instance. (Then again, the Callahanians seem to be avoiding WORMS posts this time around.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

My memories of Usenet are better but it's probably because my memories all date from before the September that never ended.

Or it could be just "good old day"-ism on my part.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Green Day are gonna be waiting for that a LOOOOOOONG time....

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Usenet is a perfectly viable conversational medium, and has been for decades. It's not all gui graphical wunderkind stuff, but if you're conveying concepts, it's really very nice.

Of course, most Facebook users aren't really into actual discourse.

[ron_newman]

to what extent does Usenet still operate today? (Serious question.)