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> I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media... Don't you consider HN to be social media?
by richmarr 8y ago
> I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media...
Don't you consider HN to be social media?
- rhizome 8y agoFor me the bare-minimum of required functionality for SM is friending and JWZ's Law, so no.
- 0xffff2 8y ago>JWZ's Law Could you expand the acronym? I've never seen it and search results aren't helpful.
- gpderetta 8y agojwz is Jamie Zawinski[1] of Netscape fame. The law states: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
- rhizome 8y agoWhoops, yeah, I should have used the standard "Zawinsky's Law."
- beat 8y agoI think of it more in terms of deliberately addictive behavior. HN is fun, but it doesn't have basic functions like infinite scrolling. The closest it has to addictive social media behavior is the upvote/downvote buttons. (See Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism for discussion about that problem.)
- beat 8y agoIt is, but that's why I said "certain social media". Not trying to do it all. If HN started substituting for Facebook, I'd be worried, but that doesn't seem to be happening.