Facebook reduces the labor of networking by helping users create better substitutes for many in-person communication networks, which makes it very hard to quit (Sarah Jeong/The Verge)

Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
Facebook reduces the labor of networking by helping users create better substitutes for many in-person communication networks, which makes it very hard to quit  —  Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you're going to have to start doing a lot of work

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