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Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. Its the commercial interpretation that is completely screwed. Profit driven, privacy invading, dark pattern driven kind of bullsht. Today my phone wanted me to install this (additional) facebook app to read my friend's 2 line message to me. i.e. Blocking the 2nd half of the message and giving me two options - link to useless help article and an i…
Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. Its the commercial interpretation that is completely screwed. Profit driven, privacy invading, dark pattern driven kind of bullsht. Today my phone wanted me to install this (additional) facebook app to read my friend's 2 line message to me. i.e. Blocking the 2nd half of the message and giving me two options - link to useless help article and an i…
The faults you are identifying are not related to the article. The implication of the article is broader. It would seem to imply that the statement Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. may not be true. Of course, this topic needs further study.
Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. Its the commercial interpretation that is completely screwed. Profit driven, privacy invading, dark pattern driven kind of bullsht. Today my phone wanted me to install this (additional) facebook app to read my friend's 2 line message to me. i.e. Blocking the 2nd half of the message and giving me two options - link to useless help article and an i…
The faults you are identifying are not related to the article. The implication of the article is broader. It would seem to imply that the statement Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. may not be true. Of course, this topic needs further study.
The title is misleading. Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness, in fact it's the opposite. It gives you a jolt of brief happiness. This can explain the correlation. It's not hard to see why people who are unhappy with their lives would spend more time on Facebook. Facebook is an alternative place where you can get a brief sense of "social" feeling. If you're perpetually unhappy and lonely, you cra…
> Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness > And the more you time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life These two statements directly contradict each other. If something gives you a brief jolt of happiness and "the more time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life", it's only superficially true that it gives you happiness, and it's much much more correct to say that it caus…
"They found for example that face-to-face interactions and the trust people place in one another are strongly correlated with well-being in a positive way. In other words, if you tend to trust people and have lots of face-to-face interactions, you will probably assess your well-being more highly."
"Because what's the point of doing anything worthwhile if nobody's watching? And if people are watching, it makes you a better person."
I feel much the same way about it myself. It seems so many are crazily self obsessed.
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> Spending time on social networks doesn't cause unhapiness > And the more you time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life These two statements directly contradict each other. If something gives you a brief jolt of happiness and "the more time you spend on it, the worse you feel about your life", it's only superficially true that it gives you happiness, and it's much much more correct to say that it caus…
They don't contradict each other. It's "correlation does not imply causation" framed differently.
Online social networks are fine on a conceptual level...beautiful even. Its the commercial interpretation that is completely screwed. Profit driven, privacy invading, dark pattern driven kind of bullsht. Today my phone wanted me to install this (additional) facebook app to read my friend's 2 line message to me. i.e. Blocking the 2nd half of the message and giving me two options - link to useless help article and an i…
Posts your unlikely to see an old collage buddy post on FB, "My kid just flunked the 8th grade.", "Just found my husband sleeping with X", "The IRS wants to talk to me." etc.
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> Everyone has demons, but no one wants to air that to their peers. The only people who would think nobody bitches/whines/complains on FB are those that have never used it.
It's not that people don't whine, it's that when they whine they are always in the right (obviously untrue). It's a part of the creation of an image that the participants want to portray to other participants, just like the cherry-picked photos and favorite media. A person who strongly follows particular trends and styles on facebook is much more likely to share the same favorite medias as those facebook participants…
Or maybe you just didn't know they were interested in the first place. I actually discovered thanks to Facebook that I share interests with many of the people who I didn't ever suspect on being interested in the same things as I.
I'm an active Facebook user with 500+ friends, most of whom I know in real life, and I'm pretty sure almost none of them is consciously trying to "build a better image of themselves" in any other way they don't already do in real life.
Seriously, everybody is "building their image" in "real life" all the time. If you go over to a friend to see the photos from a mountain trip, they will show you the nice one, not the ones when they sleep drunk under the table. Facebook actually makes it somewhat more difficult, because unlike face to face conversations, everything you wrote or posted is there to stay.