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Ask yourself what emotions you are feeling when you think about Twitter shutting down share counts. Really feel these feelings, don't let them go away, don't t
by chippy 11y ago
Ask yourself what emotions you are feeling when you think about Twitter shutting down share counts.
Really feel these feelings, don't let them go away, don't try to hide the outrage.
Now clear your mind of the negative feeling. Take several deep breaths and clear your mind.
Now think of something important in your life.
Now think of something important in the lives of another person.
Mediate on what a sense of perspective means.
- AznHisoka 11y agoI think you're being insincere here. OP obviously (I assume) is not that devastated by this change like a death in the family. But he's unhappy about it, similar to as if your client changed their spec overnight, or if their database got wiped out of data, and they had no backups. He's trying to start a conversation about this. Your comment doesn't add anything to this because HN revolves around developer/tech issues. By nature, almost ALL conversations/complaints here are 1st world problems
- brianwawok 11y agoMany HN posts are about sharing cool things. Expressing outrage a commercial product changed a feature? Seems a waste of hot air and lowers the quality of this site.
- voidz 11y agoThe word outrage fully implies otherwise. It's a hyperbole? Then this is how others will respond. QED.
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- ryanwaggoner 11y agoPlease keep this condescending tone off of HN.
- chippy 11y agolet me take several deep breaths before I reply
- thenomad 11y agoUnless you know the original poster personally, in which case this message would have been considerably better delivered offline rather than trying to publicly humiliate him/her with a lecture about perspective, you have no idea if Twitter share counts are genuinely important to her/his life or not. If the original poster is, for example, involved in launching a startup that he/she hopes will change the world, and his/her primary expected marketing vector is social media, then Twitter share counts are genuinely important in his/her life, and those of the people around him/her.