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To me, online retail is awesome, because it has allowed us to have a a constant, giant garage sale. I love to buy used books, so I use Amazon a lot. This happen to me all the time: I'm reading a book or article and the author cites another work that sounds very interesting and I decide I want to read that cited work as well. In the past you could go to the local bookstore. They either had it, or they didn't. If they didn't, which is the norm for the shit I tend to read, you ordered it, and waited sometimes weeks and had to pay full price. Now, you put down you book for one second, find the thing you want on Amazon, which many times is <$10 including shipping, and you get it in the mail in a few days. The book is recycled, you save money, and someone profits off of it. Awesome.
Google and Apple I would miss for searches and iPod, respectively, but I would manage easily. FB sucks donkey scrotum and I don't use it, so its already dead to me.
thenewgreen · 5004 days ago · link ·
It's probably good that I don't use Amazon more. I spend too much $ as it is. Your description of FB is spot in imo.