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So you blogged about it and posted it on a site that votes content
Hell, that's half of why I'm a user on this site. I don't think that time spent encouraging people not to waste so much time online is necessarily a bad thing.
"illusion of an audience" What about those who use this illusion to drive traffic to their website or front door? Just because you use Twitter for useless chatter doesn't mean everyone else does. Or am I missing the point of the article? If you spend x hours Tweeting every week and can track it all the way to measurable 'results', you can still get a sense of accomplishment that the author seems to be searching for.
Participating means you're using it for useless chatter.
It's the same as IM. I use IM at work for work, and it's a lot less inane than the regular IM I use with my friends.
This is a classic "quitting an addiction" post. I've seen and heard this many times, from people playing wow to smokers to coffee drinkers. If you have to announce how and why you are quitting, then you probably are doing it too much.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183180 here's a newsweek "I'm quitting FB" article and I'm certain I've seen one on slate.com Is Facebook really so all consuming for these people who have to quit it publicly? Personally I love FB. It's like auto-pilot for my social life. It reminds me about the birthdays about the people I only vaguely care about, leave them a one-line message on their wall and that's it until next year.…
What I love about Facebook is that if you want to use Facebook "responsibly", you can, and when you do Facebook doesn't nag you to be more supersocial or anything. Ditto Twitter, actually, though I have no need for Twitter myself. It gives you control.
Compare that to other sites - Tumblr comes to mind since it was mentioned in this article - that attempt to force users into contributing more. I've even heard some sites show a leaderboard of their "Top" users, and inherently pressure their users to post things that the largest amount of people will agree with.
This is a classic "quitting an addiction" post. I've seen and heard this many times, from people playing wow to smokers to coffee drinkers. If you have to announce how and why you are quitting, then you probably are doing it too much.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183180 here's a newsweek "I'm quitting FB" article and I'm certain I've seen one on slate.com Is Facebook really so all consuming for these people who have to quit it publicly? Personally I love FB. It's like auto-pilot for my social life. It reminds me about the birthdays about the people I only vaguely care about, leave them a one-line message on their wall and that's it until next year.…
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Have you discovered the 'noprocast' setting yet ? It's in your profile.
I just enabled that. It is utterly PATHETIC that I need to limit myself so. However .. humans are weak. You have to trick yourself. I was thinking of writing a daemon to rewrite HN's IP before I found out about noprocrast ... good feature.
A bit of a story, not sure if it is to my advantage but with all the honesty going around here (see darkxanthos) I might as well.
I'm stuck in one of the worst inspirational gaps I've been in for a long long time, and I'm trying to find the 'holy grail', a self-regulating community.
I realize that HN is to some extent set up to achieve exactly that, but given the number of people complaining about the neigbourhood going to pot it seems that there is some room for improvement.
So I find myself reading HN more than I probably should, but I hope it will jolt me out of my 'writers block' into a more productive phase.
Whatever the outcome I certainly learn a lot from hanging out here!
This is a classic "quitting an addiction" post. I've seen and heard this many times, from people playing wow to smokers to coffee drinkers. If you have to announce how and why you are quitting, then you probably are doing it too much.
If you tell people that you are quitting something, there is a social pressure on you to follow through on your promise. Your friends and family might also be willing to help you achieve your goal, which can be encouraging and push you that much further.
Well worth it, if you ask me. Best of luck to the author.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/183180 here's a newsweek "I'm quitting FB" article and I'm certain I've seen one on slate.com Is Facebook really so all consuming for these people who have to quit it publicly? Personally I love FB. It's like auto-pilot for my social life. It reminds me about the birthdays about the people I only vaguely care about, leave them a one-line message on their wall and that's it until next year.…
Facebook is wonderful - but I use it with only 23 people and disable Highlights, so I only see what I want to see. What I love about Facebook is that if you want to use Facebook "responsibly", you can, and when you do Facebook doesn't nag you to be more supersocial or anything. Ditto Twitter, actually, though I have no need for Twitter myself. It gives you control. Compare that to other sites - Tumblr comes to mind s…
I've been thinking about doing something like this for weeks. It seems like at the start of my day I'll log onto Hacker News and read 5 or 6 interesting articles. However, without even trying, by the end of the day, all the links will be grey instead of black. I'll end up clicking on every link, even the links I really don't give a shit about. It's a time sink - it really is like surfing channels without feeling as g…
Have you discovered the 'noprocast' setting yet ? It's in your profile.
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Facebook is wonderful - but I use it with only 23 people and disable Highlights, so I only see what I want to see. What I love about Facebook is that if you want to use Facebook "responsibly", you can, and when you do Facebook doesn't nag you to be more supersocial or anything. Ditto Twitter, actually, though I have no need for Twitter myself. It gives you control. Compare that to other sites - Tumblr comes to mind s…
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders