Oh, I know how to do multiple line FB comments. In the average FB post, though, I seem to be the only one who does. In most posts about issues of politics, privilege, etc, etc, I also seem to be the only one familiar with the shift key and the various fascinating dots and dashes we call "punctuation." My point isn't that it's not POSSIBLE to write a long post in FB, but rather that that's not at all what it's designed for. FB is designed to tell folks stuff. Really, it's designed to make folks AWARE of stuff. Not really to discuss it, or understand it. It's there primarily for "LOL YUO GAIZ CHECK THIS OUT". LJ and DW have a robust system for discussing a topic. FB is a way to update people about shit. Trying to use it for more than that is about as painful as trying to repurpose any other tool.
Likewise with safe spaces... if I acknowledge that no one should have to defend their reasonable conclusions in "their space", then I have to accept that people are going to demand not to have to defend unreasonable conclusions in "their space".
Ultimately, though, I've just come to accept that arguing anything that matters on Facebook is pigeon chess. I'll stay in my echo chamber, and they can stay in theirs. I may debate with posts by friends, but mostly I ignore any comments I disagree with. I know my friends are mostly reasonable people with whom I can discuss things I care about; this is not necessarily commutative to the people who fit their definition of "friend" for FB purposes.
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Date: 2012-06-12 04:34 am (UTC)From:Likewise with safe spaces... if I acknowledge that no one should have to defend their reasonable conclusions in "their space", then I have to accept that people are going to demand not to have to defend unreasonable conclusions in "their space".
Ultimately, though, I've just come to accept that arguing anything that matters on Facebook is pigeon chess. I'll stay in my echo chamber, and they can stay in theirs. I may debate with posts by friends, but mostly I ignore any comments I disagree with. I know my friends are mostly reasonable people with whom I can discuss things I care about; this is not necessarily commutative to the people who fit their definition of "friend" for FB purposes.