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Social media are tools, and a tool is as good/bad as the use we make of it, we should never forget.
How about no?
I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically. The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal. Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances. I'm…
Hmm. You'd be surprised...
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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.
Why are links to hidden/payed content allowed here?
Seeing how Facebook is constantly finding new ways to keep people online and how their development cycle makes them able to roll in features so fast, I very much doubt so.
Does anyone have a link that bypasses the paywall? Even Google doesn't show the full article.
> “There’s nothing really new or creative on it. In 10 years, the social-media craze will be pretty much gone. Everyone will find a different way to waste their time.” Seeing how Facebook is constantly finding new ways to keep people online and how their development cycle makes them able to roll in features so fast, I very much doubt so.
Freedom from something is no freedom at all. They are too young to define their lives by the things they ran away from.