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

[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.)