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Facebook is now offering canned response suggestions in discussion threads. Unlike gmail or even LinkedIn, where’s there’s some rationale for efficient canned responses, I don’t get the point here. Trying to make discussions vacuous? And the choices are all shades of agreement.
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Facebook PMs be like let’s kill genuine conversations on our platform (probably a net positive though lol)
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LinkedIn's PM: Let's add text suggestions to comments and DMs to reduce friction and increase engagement. Outcome: The feature has killed genuine conversation on the platform.
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I’ve learned to actually say stuff like that. It’s actually easier and less violent overall than velvet-gloved passive aggression though I usually go informal, like “lol, hell no” unless it’s a professional decorum context
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They probably think of it as a) prosocial nudging via agreement-by-default, and b) lowering the interaction threshold, because even typing out a few words with predictive text is too much effort for most posts :/
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