I think the stickiness of FB has more to do with Networking Effect than sunk costs.

Sorry, I hate Facebook but there’s really very few options for me to keep up with my friends and family literally on the other side of the world.  

You are sort of missing the point. Most of the people I went to school with 25 years ago live in a lot of different places and I live 2000 miles from where I went to school. I didn’t have any idea where those people were. FB made it so I could reconnect. Now that we located each other, could I communicate with them…

Cool! So my friends that I grew up with on the other side of the country and the friends I made when I lived in the Philippines are right outside my door!?

I’m still on there because of my groups. I’m disabled and can’t go out much so not much going out and talking to ‘real people’ as smug motherfuckers always harp on about. Many of my friends live in different countries. I hate talking on the phone, I also hate chatting. I’m on groups for my illnesses and conditions…

Is there really a FB alternative?

lmfao this is gold

Facebook: Come because all your “friends” wanted to keep up with you. Stay because of the sunk-cost fallacy. Remember: you are the product.

Its funny because I have one of those. With my team logo (same vest, different logo).

Personally I wear a vest at my workplace for a few reasons:

Working conditions. There are instances where you’re working and need full arm mobility and, at least with a puffy vest, it makes sense where you want your core warm so you feel warmer overall but still have unrestricted arms which will keep themselves warm so long as you’re working.

Vests are great to keep warm whenever thicker sleeves just get in the way.

The Editor Demographic is a deeply bubble-wrapped set of people. I know them well. One of them was good enough to get drunk and admit to my face that she wished she grew up like me (in Trump country) because her life (of urban and suburban international homes) was boring. What these people do not want to admit is that…

Or the girl broke her arm in an accident and everyone in school spread a nasty rumor to torment her and his mom was one of the bullies. The worst bullies are children of bullies. They come from a long tradition of meanness. 

“A girl purposely broke her own arm just to get another person in trouble.”

This kid lives in a bigger, thicker ideological bubble than the editor of Esquire’s son ever could, but please go on about how The Ubranists are bad.

Fielden’s editor’s note is titled “Why Your Ideological Echo Chamber Isn’t Just Bad For You”—with the subtitle, “it’s bad for your kids”

An article like this would be fine if perhaps it was about two teens with differing opinions comparing and contrasting and maybe letting them talk to each other. This kinda shit is pointless.

I think SB Nation and Vox are getting a little bit careless here. You can’t be giving this degree of instructions to “contractors” without risking that down the road some judge might reclassify them as employees and order you to give them all the back pay they were denied. True contractors, by law, have to get a lot…

The fucking gig economy seems really cool.