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Ego Death

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Re: Ego Death

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Post by calt »

bastawhiz wrote: post #2

I find it so irritating and difficult to read when authors needlessly make most of their paragraphs a single sentence. Or use lots of tiny sentences that read like fragments. I guess it's to add effect? Except it doesn't read like it's profound, it's just annoying. Please stop doing this and just write like you talk. Unless that's also how you talk, in which case please just don't do that.

IMHO it's to add clarity. The white space gives extra separation to statements.

It's how I write most of my communication, like statements are lines of code.

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Post by norir »

I noticed the train wreck phenomenon she described around 2009 on facebook and immediately quit knowing that I lacked the self control to look away. I post from multiple anonymous hn accounts to test ideas and make a point of not acquiring a particularly high karma before switching to a new account to ensure that I don't get attached to a particular persona that might become correlated with the handle.

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Post by rwhyan »

Funny how many "I"'s and "my"'s in this piece.

This was especially ironic:

> "I want to kill my ego, or at least substantially break it"

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Post by ZeroZeroOneZero »

netsharc wrote: post #9

> We aren’t using social media to drive action. We are using it to farm a false sense of worth. To cast stones at anyone who foolishly stumbles into the latest virtue-trap. Yeah, it feels like most of social media is now shit-flinging and calling the "outside group" stupid so one can feel "At least I'm not a stupid horrible person like that idiot!". I notice on Instagram you can "like" comments but not dislike them,…

I really do miss the days where candor was seen as a sign of respect. Now it's just seen as being contrarian or even insulting. All because you "ruined" their virtue-fueled dopamine drip.

It's not a genuine interaction, at all. It's a town hall full of shit posters, some of which you went to school with or just happen to be related to. There are literal families divided right now because Becky went full "nobody asked, stay off my profile" mode on her Uncle Steve. Which is just nuts.

Really makes me worry about where we'll be in 20-30 years, socially speaking.

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Post by kuchenbecker »

colordrops wrote: post #12
QuantumG wrote: post #5

Why is it that people who quit social media always have to make it everyone else's problem?

What do you mean? The author seemed to indicate that it was their personal problem.

If they had quit, but didn't tell anyone, would they get the validation craved?

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Post by nikolay »

rwhyan wrote: post #14

Funny how many "I"'s and "my"'s in this piece. This was especially ironic: > " I want to kill my ego , or at least substantially break it"

I agree. To quit social media for selfish reasons is really not killing your ego; it's nourish it. Social Media should benefit all and it always comes at somebody's expense.
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