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This article assumes we are at the whim of social when infact many people have tamed social and, for lack of better phrasing, made social their bitch. Read The

• ethanbond 10y ago
  That seems like an incredibly overconfident attitude. I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way. Like what is even considered productive on social media? I don't mean just workplace productivity, but even conducive to personal growth or producing more empathy or more understanding of the world or deeper friendships etc. That shit doesn't happen in Facebook.
  • maxt 10y ago
    > I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way. I'm talking about mining, say, Twitter's firehose for nuggets of gold using, let's say, R[1] or finding other clever ways to separate the signal from the noise. It's well known that Twitter and even Facebook's firehose are a cluttered, un-curated mess which are crying out to be analyzed with things like R[1], if you are so inclined, or finding other ways to do signal analysis on other social networks like Facebook. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)