<div dir="ltr">Exactly<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Ashik Salahudeen <<a href="mailto:aashiks@aashiks.in">aashiks@aashiks.in</a>> wrote:<br>

> Facebook and Twitter are not public service companies. You choose to use<br>
> them .<br>
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</div>(I am not sure if the discussion is off-topic for this specific list).<br>
The interesting bit is the conflation of public service and utilities.<br>
Social networks tend to provide a wide gamut of value to their users.<br>
The downside is that the users who choose to partake of that value<br>
mistake the networks as utilities ie. cannot be done without.<br>
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
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