[ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

[Mike Dougherty]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:01 PM, ddraig <ddraig at gmail.com> wrote:
> My main problem with social media like facebook is that they tend to be
> largely useless for conducting reasoned, lengthy discourse - and yet most
> mailing lists are defunct or heavily reduced in traffic due to the rise of
> facebook.  Overall, this has been a terrible development when it comes to
> having actual discussions online, instead of just pithy quips.  Most of the
> lists I'm on nowadays are pale shadows of their former selves, it's ice to
> see that this list is still going, and used.

Is facebook/twitter the cause or the result of people's diminishing
attention span?