Ground & Common
Ground & Common
002: Hello. Is this still available?
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002: Hello. Is this still available?

The unexpected warmth and humanity of Facebook Marketplace

Facebook Marketplace is chaos—a grammar-less land of dead ends, trades, and questionable deals. But somewhere between the bots and the lowballers, there’s an unexpected thread of humanity.

In a world primed for division, what if we gave people the benefit of the doubt?

Written and read by Nathan Tower.

Ground & Common
January 23, 2025
A few apps on my laptop go unclosed: Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Descript, and Facebook Marketplace. That last one—Marketplace—wasn’t obvious to me for some time. Though, my affliction for buying and selling gear has been intensifying for a while. Entertaining, enterprising and egregious— sifting through the shit people don’t want is oddly satisfying, I sup…
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