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You might as well say "While obviously people use HackerNews, I just don't get it. Had a account and deleted it years ago. What does it add? I see no value in
by jonp888 7y ago
You might as well say
"While obviously people use HackerNews, I just don't get it. Had a account and deleted it years ago. What does it add? I see no value in it."
The same reason anyone does anything social.
To discuss with friends and others topics of mutual interest, to find out about things that have happened to people and orgsnisations I care about. And sometimes to get validation by publicising things relevant to you personally and seeing the reaction.
Quite why HN seems to have such a collective hatred of Facebook specifically, far above all other organisations running social/content sharing platforms I don't understand. It's worse than /. and MS back in the day.
- aabbcc1241 7y agoPeople can do those discussions and information sharing without Facebook. e.g. They would have their own blog and read feeds from friends from RSS reader. Maybe they think it's easier to do that with Facebook.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Quite why HN seems to have such a collective hatred of Facebook specifically, far above all other organisations running social/content sharing platforms I don't understand I cant' speak for anybody but me, but my personal animosity towards these organization is purely because they work so hard to spy on me.