solarbird | (Reply)

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But to add a more serious note:

Private communications, in this kind of context, are not nearly as useful as public ones. Key is that they are not discoverable: a random person won't find it. All the people who read you won't find it, and that's probably a larger number than will read email you send. (Not true in all cases, of course; just saying.) And even if the email recipient list is larger, all of the recipients of such communications are going to be people you already know are interested, and, accordingly, are going to be most likely people who already agree with you on this or already know your position and have formulated their arguments against it.

If you want to reach the unreached, you have to go with public posts, not private ones. I see people on my friendslist posting political arguments - speeches, even, occasionally - friendslocked. And every time I see another one of those posts, I think and what is the fucking point of that?