Editing Talk:2106: Sharing Options

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Certainly true for Twitter where it's either public or private. (Nothing about 300, but the amount of requests one can accept over a lifetime is finite.) As for the "friends-of-friends" option, it's possible that Randall only has ~300 within that wider circle.
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.79.113|162.158.79.113]] 17:17, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

:The 300 may be in reference to a widely reported average number of Facebook friends of 338 (although not sure where this number comes from). For Twitter it looks like the average number of followers is slightly lower [https://what-if.xkcd.com/65]. Both Twitter and Facebook have well over a billion users. 300 friends is also around the maximum number of close acquaintances that the human brain is thought to be able to cope with. [[User:A(l)Chemist|AlChemist]] ([[User talk:A(l)Chemist|talk]]) 20:27, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Randall screwed up the text, likely because he's a socialist who doesn't understand how capitalism works.  The proper tooltip text should be "How about posts that are public, but every time a company accesses a bunch of them, they are charged $5/image for the privilege and $.05 per picture gets deposited into your online account?"[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 18:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
: Isn't that how it works already, except it goes into Facebook's accounts and we never see the money ourselves? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6|172.68.65.6]] 21:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
:it’s late, I can’t sleep, so I will reply even though it’s obviously a troll... just because a person “is a socialist” (whatever that might mean, the phrase is not well defined here) does not mean that they are somehow incapable of understanding how capitalism works.  Some will suggest that knowing how capitalism works might well make a person more likely to agree that socialism is a more just economic system and thus preferable.  Furthermore, just because a person “is a capitalist” doesn’t mean that he does understand how it works. So it’s a logical fallacy to conclude that Randal doesn’t understand capitalism because he “is a socialist” and furthermore there is only weak circumstantial evidence that he would consider himself even leaning towards socialism in any case.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.220|172.69.62.220]] 04:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Pretty sure the title text is meant to have been spoken by "the screen" vs. Randall/Cueball.  The screen is attempting to appease Cueball's privacy concerns by proposing that if a company such as Google, Amazon, eBay, etc. mines a large number of Cueball's social posts for their own agenda, instead of notification of that event, Cueball will instead receive a single "like" to one of his posts at random from the company's CEO.  This practice would be deceptive and of little value.  Cueball might easily miss the like, not know who the CEO of various companies are, may forget the significance of receiving such a like, etc.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.46.16|172.69.46.16]] 19:42, 1 February 2019 (UTC)Pat
: For me, I found the idea enticing because targeted advertising is so creepy, and it would show where it comes from. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6|172.68.65.6]] 21:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be categorised under "Comics featuring Megan," "Ponytail," "Hairy," and "White Hat" as well, even if they're just in the background? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.22|162.158.255.22]] 00:46, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm confused. Why is the explanation "Da da dur dur ma ma hur hur"?
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.158.46|172.69.158.46]] 02:23, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
: No one bothered to explain it yet.
:: A lot of vandalism to the article has been reverted, apparently. That was one of the strings of text that the/a vandal had left.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.251|172.68.58.251]] 17:46, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

New xkcd up!
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.46.46|172.69.46.46]] 23:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
NEVER MIND; I WAS WRONG
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.46.46|172.69.46.46]] 23:59, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
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 :The 300 may be in reference to a widely reported average number of Facebook friends of 338 (although not sure where this number comes from). For Twitter it looks like the average number of followers is slightly lower [https://what-if.xkcd.com/65]. Both Twitter and Facebook have well over a billion users. 300 friends is also around the maximum number of close acquaintances that the human brain is thought to be able to cope with. [[User:A(l)Chemist|AlChemist]] ([[User talk:A(l)Chemist|talk]]) 20:27, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
-::Dunbar's Number is closer to about 150.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.210.46|172.69.210.46]] 11:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
+Randall screwed up the text, likely because he's a socialist who doesn't understand how capitalism works.  The proper tooltip text should be "How about posts that are public, but every time a company accesses a bunch of them, they are charged $5/image for the privilege and $.05 per picture gets deposited into your online account?"[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 18:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
+: Isn't that how it works already, except it goes into Facebook's accounts and we never see the money ourselves? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.6|172.68.65.6]] 21:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
+:it’s late, I can’t sleep, so I will reply even though it’s obviously a troll... just because a person “is a socialist” (whatever that might mean, the phrase is not well defined here) does not mean that they are somehow incapable of understanding how capitalism works.  Some will suggest that knowing how capitalism works might well make a person more likely to agree that socialism is a more just economic system and thus preferable.  Furthermore, just because a person “is a capitalist” doesn’t mean that he does understand how it works. So it’s a logical fallacy to conclude that Randal doesn’t understand capitalism because he “is a socialist” and furthermore there is only weak circumstantial evidence that he would consider himself even leaning towards socialism in any case.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.220|172.69.62.220]] 04:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 Pretty sure the title text is meant to have been spoken by "the screen" vs. Randall/Cueball.  The screen is attempting to appease Cueball's privacy concerns by proposing that if a company such as Google, Amazon, eBay, etc. mines a large number of Cueball's social posts for their own agenda, instead of notification of that event, Cueball will instead receive a single "like" to one of his posts at random from the company's CEO.  This practice would be deceptive and of little value.  Cueball might easily miss the like, not know who the CEO of various companies are, may forget the significance of receiving such a like, etc.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.46.16|172.69.46.16]] 19:42, 1 February 2019 (UTC)Pat
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 NEVER MIND; I WAS WRONG
 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.46.46|172.69.46.46]] 23:59, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
-Actually other than in the cartoon (cartoons always show simplified versions of reality) Facebook offers a 3rd and a 4th option: Set your post to be kind of "private" by default and wait until the default changes afterwards. And share your post with your friends, their friends and I think also the friends of everyone else who pressed the "share" button on it. Yuck!
-: Facebook has several sharing options, but they take a bit of time to set up.  You can collect your friends into groups and (on a per-post basis) specify that your posts are only to be visible to people in certain groups.  Much like the (soon-to-be-gone) Google+'s concept of circles.  I used that for years (before I shut down my FB account altogether) to categorize my posts and only show them to friends I think care about the subject (e.g. only show politics and religion posts to those not likely to respond with flames, keep movie and TV reviews from those who hate spoilers, etc.)  [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 15:59, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
-Why do the clouds have to represent cloud servers? Why can't they just be clouds, because, ummm, I don't know - they're flying?
-What the hell is all this business about VR? I just saw the sky and stuff as an abstract representation of social media. What are you guys smoking? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.131|108.162.212.131]] 16:03, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
-:this is true. It's not VR and it's not the future. It's a metaphor and it's the present. When we get to the future where people are using VR, (a) they will have more interesting scenery and (b) option 1 will no longer be available. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.104|162.158.38.104]] 10:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
-Why change my "I have cancer" to "I'm in the hospital"?  I thought it especially relevant, as Randall's is a cancer survivor. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.94|172.68.90.94]] 22:10, 4 February 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf
-  Grr.  I thought I typed that in correct, but I guess not.  'as Randall's WIFE is a cancer survivor.' [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.112|172.68.90.112]] 23:08, 4 February 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf