On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, M. Fioretti <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 18:20:33 PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: >> My hypothesis is: If there was a perfectly usable and perfectly safe >> alternative to Facebook, the majority would still continue to use >> Facebook > > maybe, but that would matter only if those who do NOT want to stay on > Facebook had NO other way than keeping facebook.com open all the time > to know what their "facebook-only" friends or relatives are doing. > > But it is possible to read Facebook notifications from *outside* > Facebook. So you can do all your email, blogging, whatever > etc... outside Facebook, and still know when Uncle Fred posts a > picture of your last family barbecue. In other words, there is no > need for the migration/liberation from Facebook to be a 100% > instantaneous switch-off.
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