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Re: Elite social media

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Post by oneweekwonder »

calvano915 wrote: post #60
rixed wrote: post #56

Is my memory corrupted, or didn't Facebook also pretend to be reserved for the "elite" in its infancy? I remember several newspaper articles describing Facebook as the "secret" website where "important" people stays in touch with each others, with some celebrity names listed as reputed users.

I joined pretty early when it was still invite only and mostly university population. Perhaps it was described that way because of being invite only but the membership has always been normal, non-elite people (like me).

> mostly "Ivy League" university population.

From wikipedia:

> The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Re: Elite social media

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Post by ThomPete »

Buge wrote: post #41
ThomPete wrote: post #11

I am a member of Erik Wachtmeister first company A Small World I haven't logged in for ages heard they now charge. This sounds exactly the same and will probably fail for exactly the same issues. A lot of the people aren't really "1 percenters" at all but rather people who live of the "1 percenters" and so the benefits one ends up getting unless they are trying to make money on these people are easy to overlook. A mu…

Are 1%ers really that rare or special? There are 3 million of them in the US.

Well that depends whether you think 1% is rare or not.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by ThomPete »

pmoriarty wrote: post #51
ThomPete wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. In fact I realized how good a community HN is when I did a Ask HN a while back. I even ended up writing an essay about it: https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4... Compared to the responses at Reddit, Quora and other places the diversity of HN is astounding.

"Compared to the responses at Reddit, Quora and other places the diversity of HN is astounding." I love HN and have been using for a really long time, but I joined Reddit relatively recently because I found HN to be rather limiting in comparison. HN certainly can't be accused of being one-note or even two-note anymore, as it could when it first started. It's definitely been growing in diversity of stories as well as…

I don't disagree but the problem with reddit is that these are all specialized channels.

My question was specifically one that didn't know which channel to ask in. You would never get through with that question on the front of Reddit.

I used to be on Reddit before I joined HN. There are as you say sub-reddits but they aren't good for when you don't know what you don't know.

At least in my experience.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by pmoriarty »

ThomPete wrote: post #63
pmoriarty wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Compared to the responses at Reddit, Quora and other places the diversity of HN is astounding." I love HN and have been using for a really long time, but I joined Reddit relatively recently because I found HN to be rather limiting in comparison. HN certainly can't be accused of being one-note or even two-note anymore, as it could when it first started. It's definitely been growing in diversity of stories as well as…

I don't disagree but the problem with reddit is that these are all specialized channels. My question was specifically one that didn't know which channel to ask in. You would never get through with that question on the front of Reddit. I used to be on Reddit before I joined HN. There are as you say sub-reddits but they aren't good for when you don't know what you don't know. At least in my experience.

There's a subreddit called r/findareddit where you can ask where to ask.

https://www.reddit.com/r/findareddit/

Re: Elite social media

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Post by macavity23 »

dsacco wrote: post #38
gumby wrote: post #8

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> Moral of the story: rich people will always want to show off that they are rich. I think you mean, "Some rich people are insecure enough that they want to show off that they are rich." Amex caters to this very well: they play the whole "prestige" thing but if you have a "higher-level" card for the benefits (platinum, black) they are happy to issue you an ordinary green one you can use so people won't guess your wea…

You really don't need to be wealthy to get a platinum card. You don't even need to be breaking six figures. You just need a good credit score. That perception is all hype.

You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by marssaxman »

macavity23 wrote: post #65
dsacco wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really don't need to be wealthy to get a platinum card. You don't even need to be breaking six figures. You just need a good credit score. That perception is all hype.

You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.

>it's a charge card, not credit.

What is the difference? I have always believed the terms to be synonyms, and the Wikipedia article for "charge card" does nothing to change that impression.

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