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...headache and are wondering whether or not to take an aspirin, you are implicitly comparing two worlds, not at the moment you take the aspirin, but two hours from that point. This decision has nothing to do with the change in time, but everything to do with the comparison of two potential outcomes at certain points in the future...
...greatest impact of the site has not been with people that are already close, but with people that only know each other casually. Some claim that this has lead to friend-inflation—that users are not truly friends with the people on their lists. This has prompted comparison to friendster.com, a site in which strangers linkup based on information in their personal profiles...
Zuckerberg scoffs at such a comparison. Zuckerberg explains that, “one main difference is that [the facebook] is not a dating site. The type of information on the site is fundamentally different. People aren’t as biased in how they represent themselves...
Citing a recent study by the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, May and Rebecca O’Brien, a second-year law student and the group’s other founder, said that headline-grabbing disputes over recounts in the 2000 election paled in comparison to the problem of widespread disenfranchisement...
It’s getting harder and harder to resist the comparison...