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This, btw, is why I have separate twitter accounts for my silos of interest: my fellow programmers don't care about the non-tech podcasts, I follow, my politics

by mikece 7y ago

This, btw, is why I have separate twitter accounts for my silos of interest: my fellow programmers don't care about the non-tech podcasts, I follow, my politics, my religion, my hobbies, and especially my views on Star Wars -- I have separate accounts and separate social circles for each of these topics. I'm surprised so many people use just one account for everything because any two people, selected at random, can find a reason not to like each other. I prefer to keep a tight focus.

K0SM0S 7y ago
But it feels natural, too. The reality of our lives well before internet is that we don't speak the same topics, or not the same way, whether we're at work, or between close friends, or at home, or in public, etc. We have 'circles' or 'domains' in our social lives. That's the one thing Google+ did right, by the way. The one thing 'groups' features are just abysmally bad at modelling in online environments – despite e.g. RPG having solved those mechanics 20 years ago. I think it's on purpose, because blurring those psychological lines somehow must yield higher ROI, in some way or another.
ElijahLynn 7y ago
I keep one account for everything because I want to draw people who are like minded to my circle. I don't want to hide that. I am who I am.
- mikece 7y ago
  But are you, really? As an amateur radio operator my interests and social circle have almost no overlap with my interests and social circle as a programmer, and almost no overlap with my interests and social circle politically, religiously, etc. in a very true sense I am several different people at once and if my hobbyist self manifested at work to the exclusion of all else the best I could hope for is that I be asked if maybe I should take a day off and rest. I don’t expect to find people who overlap with more than one of my interests but am overjoyed when I do. I can’t imagine being a bigger jackass than to manifest all of my interests to all people at all times and express a “this is who I am, take it or leave it!” attitude. The greatest joy in life is finding a good friend or even best friend who shares three or more of these interests. Heck, our spouses don’t always share more than two!

by mikece 7y ago

K0SM0S 7y ago

But it feels natural, too. The reality of our lives well before internet is that we don't speak the same topics, or not the same way, whether we're at work, or between close friends, or at home, or in public, etc. We have 'circles' or 'domains' in our social lives. That's the one thing Google+ did right, by the way. The one thing 'groups' features are just abysmally bad at modelling in online environments – despite e.g. RPG having solved those mechanics 20 years ago. I think it's on purpose, because blurring those psychological lines somehow must yield higher ROI, in some way or another.

ElijahLynn 7y ago

I keep one account for everything because I want to draw people who are like minded to my circle. I don't want to hide that. I am who I am.

mikece 7y ago
But are you, really? As an amateur radio operator my interests and social circle have almost no overlap with my interests and social circle as a programmer, and almost no overlap with my interests and social circle politically, religiously, etc. in a very true sense I am several different people at once and if my hobbyist self manifested at work to the exclusion of all else the best I could hope for is that I be asked if maybe I should take a day off and rest. I don’t expect to find people who overlap with more than one of my interests but am overjoyed when I do. I can’t imagine being a bigger jackass than to manifest all of my interests to all people at all times and express a “this is who I am, take it or leave it!” attitude. The greatest joy in life is finding a good friend or even best friend who shares three or more of these interests. Heck, our spouses don’t always share more than two!