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		akerl_ 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News – The Good Parts That’s more an argument that Wikipedia is a social network with a high barrier to entry than an argument that it’s not a social network. Facebook was a social network even when the barrier to entry was “must have gotten in to an elite school”.

b112 60 days ago [–]

I didn't say it wasn't a social network.

I was specifically addressing the conjoined "intellectual growth + participation" claim, by saying the 'growth' wasn't there. I even joked that it feels you're shrinking intellectually, to participate.

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