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.

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[drwex]

In other news, round objects are still round.

To be a bit more serious, Facebook's revenue model is built around ads and page views. Things that cause people to make short replies and repeatedly load pages play into their revenue model. Long, thoughtful writing is contrary to that model.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Long, thoughtful writing is contrary to that model.

This. I didn't want to start by highlighting the "Facebook likes it this way" aspect of the situation, but I'm glad you did.