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Was this re-posted to say that they were prescient? or that they were dead wrong? Isn't this the driving force behind everyone trying to innovate in the social

Was this re-posted to say that they were prescient? or that they were dead wrong? Isn't this the driving force behind everyone trying to innovate in the social space? Providing segmented social groups that down have the implied obligations of "friendship." Isn't this the impetus for why we spend all of our time on HN and Reddit?

kreek 16y ago
I spend more time on HN than Facebook because I prefer to pull to push.
- bstriddy 16y ago
  I heard shoving is worse than pushing, but I'd rather know a shover than a pusher 'cause a pusher's a jerk.
  - mdemare 16y ago
    No puns, please, we're Serious People.
- tokenadult 16y ago
  I spend more time on Facebook than on HN because Facebook's topic restrictions (implicit in what my friends choose to discuss and recommend as links) are very nearly exactly the union of all of my various interests, being defined solely by my friends' interests. I still "pull" links or messages from what Facebook displays to me, just as I don't open absolutely every thread here on HN. I like HN a lot, and appreciate its openness in principle to the whole world combined with its high aspirations for community and civility, but Facebook feeds me links and thus interesting conversations that I would never see on HN. After edit, having seen first reply: Yes, I am quite intentional about building a network of smart friends who have worthwhile things to say (not screened in any way by native language, country of origin, religious opinions, political opinions, or occupation). One of the delights of middle age is accumulating a group of interesting friends. (And that brings me here to HN.) As I noted another time Facebook's level of interest came up here on HN, once when I asked "Does Facebook bore you?" (in response to a front-page post here on HN), one friend replied, "I believe it was Samuel Johnson who said, 'When a man is tired of Facebook, he is tired of life.'" That kind of literary allusion in a humorous comment is routine among my friends, and one of the reasons I like spending a lot of time on Facebook. And after further edit, I'd be delighted to hear from other readers here why they think Facebook could or could not do the same for them. Meanwhile, I will ask my Facebook friends, having posted the original link that was referred to in this submission here on HN, http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573 http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=... what they think of the predicted problem. (And the first reply was, "I guess I'm just not avoiding that many people... it hasn't been a problem.")
  - chrmaury 16y ago
    You are a lucky, lucky person if your facebook feed is has that high a signal to noise ratio. Mine, and I think a lot of other people's is all drivel, and that's after taking the time to block people who I don't care to see.
  - chrmaury 16y ago
    You are extremely fortunate. I started using Facebook in College, when it was just for college students, and the use case was COMPLETELY different than I would want to use it now. Now, I'm constantly searching to find an online equivalent of the high-level conversation which I get in the real world (similar to your humour literary allusions). I'm much more protective of my real-world social connections.
  - Chocobean 16y ago
    a definite disadvantage of being non-middle aged is that my friends do not parody Dr. Johnson, they post pictures of their last meals with their boyfriends. HN is one of the means through which I escape the constraints of my real life social circles.
- chrmaury 16y ago
  How would you classify commenting in HN? It's not pulling, because you are creating content. But its not shoving either, cuz the only people who would take the time to read it are people who are at least moderately interested.

kreek 16y ago

I spend more time on HN than Facebook because I prefer to pull to push.

bstriddy 16y ago
I heard shoving is worse than pushing, but I'd rather know a shover than a pusher 'cause a pusher's a jerk.
- mdemare 16y ago
  No puns, please, we're Serious People.
tokenadult 16y ago
I spend more time on Facebook than on HN because Facebook's topic restrictions (implicit in what my friends choose to discuss and recommend as links) are very nearly exactly the union of all of my various interests, being defined solely by my friends' interests. I still "pull" links or messages from what Facebook displays to me, just as I don't open absolutely every thread here on HN. I like HN a lot, and appreciate its openness in principle to the whole world combined with its high aspirations for community and civility, but Facebook feeds me links and thus interesting conversations that I would never see on HN. After edit, having seen first reply: Yes, I am quite intentional about building a network of smart friends who have worthwhile things to say (not screened in any way by native language, country of origin, religious opinions, political opinions, or occupation). One of the delights of middle age is accumulating a group of interesting friends. (And that brings me here to HN.) As I noted another time Facebook's level of interest came up here on HN, once when I asked "Does Facebook bore you?" (in response to a front-page post here on HN), one friend replied, "I believe it was Samuel Johnson who said, 'When a man is tired of Facebook, he is tired of life.'" That kind of literary allusion in a humorous comment is routine among my friends, and one of the reasons I like spending a lot of time on Facebook. And after further edit, I'd be delighted to hear from other readers here why they think Facebook could or could not do the same for them. Meanwhile, I will ask my Facebook friends, having posted the original link that was referred to in this submission here on HN, http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573 http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=... what they think of the predicted problem. (And the first reply was, "I guess I'm just not avoiding that many people... it hasn't been a problem.")
- chrmaury 16y ago
  You are a lucky, lucky person if your facebook feed is has that high a signal to noise ratio. Mine, and I think a lot of other people's is all drivel, and that's after taking the time to block people who I don't care to see.
- chrmaury 16y ago
  You are extremely fortunate. I started using Facebook in College, when it was just for college students, and the use case was COMPLETELY different than I would want to use it now. Now, I'm constantly searching to find an online equivalent of the high-level conversation which I get in the real world (similar to your humour literary allusions). I'm much more protective of my real-world social connections.
- Chocobean 16y ago
  a definite disadvantage of being non-middle aged is that my friends do not parody Dr. Johnson, they post pictures of their last meals with their boyfriends. HN is one of the means through which I escape the constraints of my real life social circles.
chrmaury 16y ago
How would you classify commenting in HN? It's not pulling, because you are creating content. But its not shoving either, cuz the only people who would take the time to read it are people who are at least moderately interested.