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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by conradfr »

Kronopath wrote: post #508
Veen wrote: post #35

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> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work I've overcome my Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter problems, but I can't seem to shake Hacker News.

Here's a friendly reminder that the "noprocrast" options in your profile exist. From the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html : > If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can set i…

It worked for me, until I got a smartphone ;)

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by thesmok »

WA wrote: post #334
diegoperini wrote: post #251

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Same here. HN is addictive, but also insanely useful in some cases which makes it hard to leave like any other mentioned site there. I literally owe many of my succesful professional decisions to researches that initally started here. I find some interesting article, read the comments first, then the article, then the comments again. In the middle of this flow, I decide whether it is worthy to save to my Pocket accou…

Have you checked if the articles in your Pocket share something, for example upvotes or number of comments? Because then you could browse the top posts only once per week. Either via Hckrnews [1] or use the curated Hacker Newsletter [2]. [1]: http://hckrnews.com/ [2]: http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

I'm subscribed through HNDigest http://hndigest.com

Just enough distraction for my work day.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by mason240 »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #63
mason240 wrote: post #50

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>When you post on Facebook or Twitter, you're publishing content in the public sphere, deliberately. I would argue that Facebook is private, Twitter is public.

Regardless of your privacy settings, it's public to the system. There have been reports of accounts that can see all accounts, and regardless, if Facebook decided to change their policy, things could become public with no input from you. You have no expectation of anything on Facebook not being public.

This is also true of email.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by dietervds »

diegoperini wrote: post #251
Veen wrote: post #35

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> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work I've overcome my Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter problems, but I can't seem to shake Hacker News.

Same here. HN is addictive, but also insanely useful in some cases which makes it hard to leave like any other mentioned site there. I literally owe many of my succesful professional decisions to researches that initally started here. I find some interesting article, read the comments first, then the article, then the comments again. In the middle of this flow, I decide whether it is worthy to save to my Pocket accou…

I've recently made a Zapier 'zap' that sends me a daily digest of @newsyc100 by e-mail. I realised that that account was the biggest reason I was still scrolling through my Twitter feed all the time. Ever since I've only checked Twitter once every few days, when I explicitly wanted to.

In the case of Facebook I found that just removing it from my bookmarks bar helped loads. Prevents me from just clicking on it half-dazed and starting to scroll.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by maxt »

ethanbond wrote: post #89
maxt wrote: post #74

This article assumes we are at the whim of social when infact many people have tamed social and, for lack of better phrasing, made social their bitch. Read The Distraction Addiction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131064-the-distraction...

That seems like an incredibly overconfident attitude. I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way. Like what is even considered productive on social media? I don't mean just workplace productivity, but even conducive to personal growth or producing more empathy or more understanding of the world or deeper friendships etc. That shit doesn't happen in Facebook.

> I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way.

I'm talking about mining, say, Twitter's firehose for nuggets of gold using, let's say, R[1] or finding other clever ways to separate the signal from the noise.

It's well known that Twitter and even Facebook's firehose are a cluttered, un-curated mess which are crying out to be analyzed with things like R[1], if you are so inclined, or finding other ways to do signal analysis on other social networks like Facebook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by ksenzee »

majewsky wrote: post #486
ksenzee wrote: post #451

This article reads very much like me, a non-drinker, telling you why you shouldn't drink. I've never tried alcohol, but I've heard plenty of bad things about it, and here's a list of them! It's addictive, you know! Messes with the dopamine system! I do consider social media addictive. But adults can usually handle addictive substances. We just have to know our limits, and cut ourselves off if needed. There's really n…

The problem is that most people don't even realize that social media is an addictive substance.

I agree. It would be great if as a society we handled social media (and other addictive experiences) the same way we handle drugs and gambling: adults only, know your limits, here's help getting clean. Instead we have kids obsessively snapchatting and messing with their dopamine system before their brain is even finished developing.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by nickpsecurity »

nicky0 wrote: post #510
nickpsecurity wrote: post #270

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Not quite. It's mostly not social media but there are similarities. There's a friends list here for sure where certain topics or people attract either similar or the same people. A small community effect happens there in the sub-threads. There's no private messaging but anyone posting an email or contact option will get messages if their posts are worthwhile. Anyone with HN Replies commenting a lot will have a pile o…

An I alone in never looking at usernames? I only read the content of each comment. I only look at the username to track a back-and-forth between two users and even then it's pretty much an opaque token to me. Might as well be a random string.

Your unconscious mind will see them. I don't know how much effect that has. I did consider helping people eliminate bias by creating a HN client that replaces the names with random ones on a per-thread basis. Any replies get substituted with real name when sent to actual site. Also some filtering options.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by forgetsusername »

Noseshine wrote: post #149
forgetsusername wrote: post #110

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This is a great point. Why not?

Because a comment made on a public worldwide-readable forum is not private, and you know that before you sign up with an account, so it's not like you accidentally made a public comment that was meant to be private. Protecting private communication is about just that - stuff that actually is private (to begin with). Public opinion and the law may of course change, the issue that something uttered in public, be it by…

>Because a comment made on a public worldwide-readable forum is not private, and you know that before you sign up with an account, so it's not like you accidentally made a public comment that was meant to be private. Protecting private communication is about just that - stuff that actually is private (to begin with).

That's an incredible strawman. Nothing you argue is a reason why we can't delete posts with our accounts.

>How does a forum look like when key posts are suddenly missing?

I guess that depends where your values are: privacy or making sure a forum "looks good".

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by forgetsusername »

dang wrote: post #504
forgetsusername wrote: post #110

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This is a great point. Why not?

pg wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226

Yeah, I figured this is the reason. Interesting discussion around it. Probably a good middle ground somewhere.
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