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Ngl if I were Zuckerberg I'd be doing the exact same thing. I feel like the majority of people are severely underestimating the impact this last election will have and still are in denial. If you think he's doing the wrong thing it's cause you don't know what the consequences will be if he doesn't do this.
What, pray tell, are these consequences?
Ngl if I were Zuckerberg I'd be doing the exact same thing. I feel like the majority of people are severely underestimating the impact this last election will have and still are in denial. If you think he's doing the wrong thing it's cause you don't know what the consequences will be if he doesn't do this.
Just curious as to what you think the consequences could be if he didn't?
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> Zuckatrump Did the Hive approve this, or are you breaking the rules of individualism?
What are you implying?
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I’m not on social media but people have been posting obituaries publicly in newspapers and such for centuries.
Scale matters. You read the obituaries in your local paper, “oh, so and so has passed away”, you don’t know them particularly well, might or might not go to the funeral. Posting it to social media, then thinking if whoever doesn’t contact you to… what? “Sorry for your loss”? “My condolences” … hurts your relationship with that person? Call me old fashioned, but… Is it narcissistic in here, or is it just me?
That's not what anyone said, you're out here fighting ghosts.
> And if someone doesn't reach out, it will hurt the relationship a little even if I'm not conscience of it because when I think of people who were there for me during a tough time, the friend who never knew my parent died wouldn't come to mind.
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HN may survive if upvote/downvotes are removed, but until then it will continue to be astroturfed and manipulated heavily to push narratives and subconsciously teach the startup/hacker community which opinions are favored and disfavored today.
you could argue that the home page is "manipulated" (though I don't think it's as nefarious as you suggest), but you can just as easily view all posts in chronological order instead of the home page; upvoting of articles interesting to see what other users find relevant / useful but wouldn't affect. I browse the titles and click on what seems interesting to me, regardless of the number of upvotes.
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> People you met and appreciated in the past evolve into friends and friends evolve into people you met and appreciated in the past. Each person can change "the status" multiple times, depending on circumstances. Agree with that. > However, if you decide that weaker relationships dont matter, they will never grow into friendships. They will die out. I don't think putting thumbs up on social media posts count as "grow…
> I don't think putting thumbs up on social media posts count as "growing into friendship". The interactions I have seen on social media did not consisted from thumbs up only. > If you get out of social medias you actually realize your only chance to make relationships is by going outside and meet people that are close to you. What actually happen to most people is that they stop showing up in meetups organized throu…
Not necessarily but in my experience unless those people meet on a semi regular basis (as long as 2 years), or have a special bond (family) this usually slides toward superficiality.
> What actually happen to most people is that they stop showing up in meetups organized through social media (majority of them) and over time loose those relationships. From what I have seen, removing yourself from social media does not create new relationships for most people.
People don't only meet other people through meetups organized in social medias. I usually get invitations to events through calls and messages from friends, coworkers and ex-coworkers and meet other people there where we exchange phone numbers. I meet people on the road while cycling, some through their dance/yoga/crossfit/crochet class, etc. Several of my good friends I met over they years was by seeing them every day in my train commute and ending up talking to. I've met some random people in a bar and ending up sharing tapas with them and going home with their numbers.
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It’s funny, a few groups I belong to solely use FB. One group is for the preservation of weatern history and a friend digitizes and uploads thousands of pictures (if not 10s of rhoughsands) yearly. The only actual digital copies are on FB. It bugs me that he won’t archive elsewhere. The reason is fb is a commons and an additional backup would be a magnitude more work. I’ve offered to buy hard drives.
You can download the pictures and archive them yourself.
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>accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity But the question is, are trans people actually mentally ill objectively? It certainly doesn't help them reproduce (a form of survival) from a biological perspective, for example. This Johns Hopkins professor thinks it's mental illness: https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/scpsva/Board.nsf/files/B8UR4X...
It’s nuanced. Something that appears to have been lost during the last years of trans hate. > Like all DSM illnesses, one key component of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, all of that, is that you have to be functionally impaired by it, otherwise it doesn’t count as a diagnosis https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphori... Many trans people fought to keep it in the DSM for the simple reason that…
Also trans people tend to have many other correlated mental issues and for example have high suicide attempt rates.
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I don't know about other people but social media doesn't make me feel worse about my life. There's no fomo when my 2nd cousin in another state posts about having a baby. She's important to me, and I don't expect her to waste time emailing me directly when the rest of the extended family is all on social media.
It didn't make me feel worse but it did bring out the worst in me. It's too easy to slip into bragging about your life and how well it's going.