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I wish people would not react with "well, it works on my machine" to stories of personal experience. Personal experiences have value - at least some, if they ar

by smsm42 6y ago

I wish people would not react with "well, it works on my machine" to stories of personal experience. Personal experiences have value - at least some, if they are well written and reflect important trends - even if they don't match yours. Dismissing it just because yours is different... well, it's fine, maybe it has no value for you. Claiming that it has no value to anybody ever is just hubris.

okareaman 6y ago
It's always the same complaints (invasion of privacy, I'm obsessed so it takes too much of my time, I get too many insulting DM's, or I don't like making them rich by providing content for free), never anything serious like Twitter is mining bitcoin in the background or Facebook makes it easy for ransome ware criminals to target you.
- smsm42 6y ago
  Your fears are yours, not a universal rule. For you, the worst Twitter can do is to steal some of your CPU time. For somebody else, it may be steal the actual time of their life, or enjoyment of it, and that may be more important for them. It's fine that it's not important for you, just don't try to claim it's the same for everybody. "Serious" is subjective.