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Quit Social Media (2016)

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Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by malfist »

elpocko wrote: post #7
malfist wrote: post #3

I quit any non small community social media a few years ago and it's been really nice. My tolerance for trolls and thinking with people on the Internet is has dropped away down and I think I'm better for it. Certainly feels better

>thinking with people on the Internet is has dropped away down What? Also, congrats for being less tolerant. I like that.

Google's autocorrect "corrects" words it thought you meant, sometimes words later so you don't see it. I put arguing, but Google decided I meant thinking

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by krapp »

dimal wrote: post #34
jjordan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter/X is fantastic for breaking news. For example during the first assassination attempt you would find new details on there that would then appear on MSM newscasts one to two hours later. It also helps immensely to curate lists of interests to help filter out the noise and politics.

Honest question, why is breaking news important? How exactly does knowing unsubstantiated details about an event immediately male one’s life better?

It isn't important. The vast majority of "journalism" is as worthless as the vast majority of "discourse" around it. If it doesn't affect you personally, you can likely safely ignore it and if it does affect you personally, you probably won't need the news to tell you about it.

"Breaking news" used to be relevant in that it was news that "broke into" existing programming. It didn't necessarily make people's lives better but at least it tended to cover matters of high national interest like Presidential assassinations or disasters or wars. But now that everything is breaking news all the time everywhere, the term no longer means anything other than being a synonym for "current news," which isn't even really impressive anymore.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

#53

Post by synergy20 »

ryandv wrote: post #38
freediver wrote: post #6

I would rephrase it to “quit ad-based social media”. The incentives are perverse, there is an inherent conflict of interest in the business model and there is an intermediary between the user and information/community they want to participate in. This leads to most problems we see in legacy, ad-based, social media. Most successful social circles are ones where there is a barrier to entry. In life we do not let everyo…

I would rephrase it further to "quit ad-based media." The problems and conflicts of interest introduced by an ad-based revenue model were discussed long before the advent of the modern Web and social media; the relationship between the advertisement industry and mass media (television, radio) was already discussed in depth in the late 20th century [0]: The advertisers' choices influence media prosperity and survival.…

in the old days even you paid to subscribe,the newspaper and journal and cable TV etc still carried commercials, they're always there,just getting much worse nowadays

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by tayo42 »

freediver wrote: post #6

I would rephrase it to “quit ad-based social media”. The incentives are perverse, there is an inherent conflict of interest in the business model and there is an intermediary between the user and information/community they want to participate in. This leads to most problems we see in legacy, ad-based, social media. Most successful social circles are ones where there is a barrier to entry. In life we do not let everyo…

> In life we do not let everyone into the friend circle

Thought that ended in high school. You have to be a real pos to not get invites to stuff...

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

#55

Post by poppycock »

a5c11 wrote: post #43
poppycock wrote: post #13

Programmers (cs students, "engineers") are one of the most pompous group of people who think their ability to #include gives them some special ability to speak about efficiency, physics, math (other than your run of the mill discrete or remedial linear algebra) or pretty much any other topic on the face of the Earth. Don't worry about your active Facebook account. People who make it a point to signal otherwise are ju…

Are these programmers in the room with us now?

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Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

#56

Post by kikokikokiko »

motbus3 wrote: post #31

I won't advertise but I work for a company which holds a social media for cooking and recipes. Folks there are totally averse to those and based stuff. It has been hard for the company. The owner decided the company will die before using ads (for many reasons). The paid plan is stupidly cheap and when people sign and use for a month they stick with the company for years. But it is hard. Company laid off 80% of the te…

If the company you work for REALLY does behave like that, you SHOULD DEFINITELY advertise it. Companies like this must be acknowledged and celebrated. The owner must be a really good person.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

#57

Post by purple-leafy »

I did this without having to get inspiration from others. And I did it at a young age (under 18), when all my friends and the world were flocking to social media and spilling their thoughts and PII everywhere. I have nothing, and have had nothing ever since (discounting HN).

People are sheep, and people are stupid. Most people waste their lives looking at a mass fake digital mask of their peers, and people they don’t even know.

Myself on the other hand, I spend almost all my spare time with people and animals I love, studying, reading books, and thinking about bigger things.

You are what you consume, which makes most people morons. Same if you consume “the news”, care about celebrities.

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by purple-leafy »

kikokikokiko wrote: post #56
motbus3 wrote: post #31

I won't advertise but I work for a company which holds a social media for cooking and recipes. Folks there are totally averse to those and based stuff. It has been hard for the company. The owner decided the company will die before using ads (for many reasons). The paid plan is stupidly cheap and when people sign and use for a month they stick with the company for years. But it is hard. Company laid off 80% of the te…

If the company you work for REALLY does behave like that, you SHOULD DEFINITELY advertise it. Companies like this must be acknowledged and celebrated. The owner must be a really good person.

No form of advertising is good, I don’t want your advertising assaulting my senses.

I don’t care if you piss gold or if you’re the pope or king, don’t advertise to me

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by purple-leafy »

ryandv wrote: post #50

I quit social media over 10 years ago, already having been a conscientious objector to Facebook and other platforms, much to the confusion of my classmates who didn't understand my idiosyncratic positions on digital privacy, attention span, banality, and brainrot. It's gotten to the point where I view the narcissism of the modern 21st century social media user the same way I would view a crack addict smoking a pipe o…

Your comment and mine (see my other comment) are almost mirror reflections lol. Sounds like similar ages at the time too

Re: Quit Social Media (2016)

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Post by kikokikokiko »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #5

Isn’t it on the decline yet? Facebook is for boomers. Twitter is weird and we all realised how pointless it is to spend time falling out on there. Instagram feels a bit long in the tooth. LinkedIn is a parody of itself. Reddit feels like it’s growing but I think that avoids the worst of social media. TikTok and YouTube shorts seem popular but aren’t really social media. It’s just time wasting junk. All in all, social…

Instagram is a must if you want to get any real benefit out of using dating apps in 2024. The only way to talk to anybody without paying is to look at the profile, get their instagram url, and talk over there. I'm an old millennial who basically only uses HN for social media, and unfortunately IG is a must have.
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