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Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by mbreedlove »

meira wrote: post #4

The one you aren't going see in WSJ: teens who say no to Paywall

I'm really starting to think sites with paywalls should be banned from HN. ATM, this is #11 and I can't read it.

I know you can do that google redirect thing that removes the paywall, but I'm really not that interested in reading the NYT anyways, even without having to jump through hoops.

Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by maffeis »

soufron wrote: post #15
maffeis wrote: post #10

Social media are tools, and a tool is as good/bad as the use we make of it, we should never forget.

Nope, tools also have a meaning by themselves.

We come to understand the meaning of tools only by the use other people make of them. Of course tools come with a priori, socially charged meanings, yet they are the results of the way we have historically used or interacted with them. There's no such a thing as intrinsic meaning, in this world.

Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by maffeis »

reddytowns wrote: post #19
maffeis wrote: post #10

Social media are tools, and a tool is as good/bad as the use we make of it, we should never forget.

Social media is a honeypot meant to trick people into giving up their information. Each piece on it's own may seem unimportant, but like in a game of Go, you won't see the full impact until it's too late.

Agreed. But I think it's safe to say that by using social media we implicitly accept the constant tension between using the tools and becoming a tool ourselves.

Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by hutzlibu »

mk89 wrote: post #25
soufron wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, tools also have a meaning by themselves.

What's the meaning of a knife, then?

To cut.

But with a butter knife you won't really cut humans. But there are combat knives for that... and yes, you can also use the latter for butter, but not so good.

Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by sannysanoff »

mk89 wrote: post #25
soufron wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, tools also have a meaning by themselves.

What's the meaning of a knife, then?

there are people obsessed with knives as such (collecting them, playing with them, carrying them all the time, imagining they save the world/themselves with knife). Knives have their power over them. And that's just knives, not even intellectual toys like products of multi-billion industry we're talking about.

Re: Teens Who Say No to Social Media

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Post by frou_dh »

mbreedlove wrote: post #21
meira wrote: post #4

The one you aren't going see in WSJ: teens who say no to Paywall

I'm really starting to think sites with paywalls should be banned from HN. ATM, this is #11 and I can't read it. I know you can do that google redirect thing that removes the paywall, but I'm really not that interested in reading the NYT anyways, even without having to jump through hoops.

-- Annoyed about not being able to read an article.

-- Have a straightforward way to read the article (that's even automated by HN's [web] link).

-- Decide can't be bothered to read the article after all.

-- Pipe up and moan to everyone in the virtual train carriage about the article's website.

ASSESSMENT: Waste of attention! Just another mutation of bikeshedding.

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