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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
When friends head to a bar for some after-work drinks, and all they do is chill and chat with each other, they are socializing. At the same time, it could be argued that this socialization has no purpose.
You are suggesting that simply facilitating easier contact between members (in a theoretical world where a "Friends List" is just a list of bnet profiles that you can have, with no additional functionality) is a bad thing, because it has no point.
Are you seriously suggesting that such enabling technology, as simple as it is, is bad because it doesn't give users a specific purpose? I mean, it is okay to say that a friends list would be "better" with new features x, y, and z, but useless/bad without them? That's silly.
Facilitating communication is a purpose until itself. When humans communicate, you get fascinating emergent behavior that always justifies the effort of lowering the barriers. Case in point - the creation of the Internet itself.
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
I know that socialization of the site would be a good thing, all I'm saying is that socialization should have a purpose. Friends list would work coupled with the inclusion of a chat feature. But JUST a friends list wouldn't make sense.
(I know this wasn't directed at me, obviously, just figured I'd put in my two cents considering I'm one of the people talking about how it would be bad on the thread)