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This might be quite a bit off topic. But are any other coders a little tired of social features? I'm a pretty anti-social person. I always have a relatively sm
by sammcd 16y ago
This might be quite a bit off topic.
But are any other coders a little tired of social features? I'm a pretty anti-social person. I always have a relatively small group of friends.
When more social features are added to something I do all it does is make me anxious. Since the anti-social programmer stereotype is played up quite a bit, I would assume my fellow programmers felt similarly. However the growing amount of social web applications is making me think I am alone in these feelings.
- xorglorb 16y agoYou are not alone. Many of the (real) programmers I know fit the reclusive but highly intelligent stereotype and don't have Facebook, MySpace (does it still exist?) or Twitter accounts. But all of the programmers I know would gladly profit off of the, as Zuckerburg referred to them, "dumb fucks" who just give out their information to any website that asks for it.
- andrewtbham 16y agoi hear you, the flip side for me it reduces social anxiety. i can see what people are up to without having to interact with them directly...
- mike-cardwell 16y agoA year ago, no. Today, very much so. I hope this is just a fad and not the future of the Web. I'm not confident though.
- iamjustlooking 16y agoWhat annoys me more are websites that only let you log in with a facebook account. I don't want a facebook account!
- joe_the_user 16y agoI have facebook account but this annoys me just as much. I don't want to share my facebook account with random whosits. I actually like social sites, what I think constitutes Orwellian Evil is Facebook's aspiration to force everyone to use a single Facebook account for every interaction.
- bertil 16y agoIs there any website that does that (permanently, not as a “launch fast, details later” strategy)?