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> I stopped using all social media as of last year You're posting this comment on social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://en.wikiped
by Kiro 6y ago
> I stopped using all social media as of last year
You're posting this comment on social media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
> I'm more at peace , I no longer getting into stupid Facebook arguments. Online you aren't interacting with whole people, so being absurdly mean is easy.
What makes HN different?
- 01100011 6y agoI don't think people here appreciate you pointing out their hypocrisy. HN is different in many ways(not tailoring content based on profiles, not trying to maximize engagement, etc), but it still has many problems (groupthink, suppression of contrarian ideas, karma whoring, inconsistent fact checking, etc).
- sibeliuss 6y agoIt's ridiculous to compare hacker news to Facebook or any other social network mentioned in the documentary.
- daveslash 6y agoI see what you're getting at, but eh, I'm not entirely convinced. What is a social network? I think there's some gray area there. The Wikipedia article you shared calls out Social Media as being "Web 2.0" (which itself is a nebulous term). One could argue that HN is just a forum, not unlike news groups that predated Web 2.0. Like I said: I see what you're getting at, and maybe HN is social media, but I would still assert that when considered as social media, HN is a far cry from a network like Facebook in terms of platform-functionality/feature-set/behavior/agenda.