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Hm... the alternative explanation is, people were always dumb, Facebook (and internet in general) just makes it more apparent by giving us more oportunities to
by tomp 11y ago
Hm... the alternative explanation is, people were always dumb, Facebook (and internet in general) just makes it more apparent by giving us more oportunities to display our stupidity.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoOr: people were always tribal and concerned more with shibboleths identifying the in-group than truth. Facebook (and Tumblr and Reddit, etc, even HN) just automates it.
- arama471 11y agoI disagree with Tumblr and Reddit being compared with Facebook in this regard, and completley disagree that HN is in anyway similar in this regard. Facebook will automatically stop showing you things you disagree with, whilst it has to be a conscious choice on your part on Reddit and Facebook. On HN you don't actually get to choose the content in any meaningful way, and therefore have no means of creating an echo chamber for yourself through other means then down voting.
- humanrebar 11y agoI agree with your assessment of things other than to point out that HN is already an echo chamber to some degree.
- ajuc 11y ago> Before I used internet for the first time I had no idea how many stupid people there are [Stanisław Lem]
- kaybe 11y agoThat was supposed to be up, not down..