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

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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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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.