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I wonder if this happened, would teenagers would be upset or relieved? There's a This American Life episode[1] in which several teenage girls explain the comple

I wonder if this happened, would teenagers would be upset or relieved? There's a This American Life episode[1] in which several teenage girls explain the complex etiquette of Instagram. It sounds stressful, it sounds exhausting, it sounds like a full time job. Right now, anyone who opts out also excludes themselves from a major aspect of school social life. 1. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/573/transcript https://www.thisamericanlife.org/573/transcript

jakequade 5y ago
They would be upset. 100%. Many of them just don't care about the inner workings of the app.
- disconcision 5y ago
  agreed, it just seems easier to make being on social media mandatory; then the kids would hate it
- Saptarishi 5y ago
  Maybe that is the downside of the general policy of abstraction that Devs use, that software should be made to look as simple as possible, and all the apparently "unnecessary intricacies"(which could have disastrous effects) should be dumped under the hood.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - worrycue 5y ago
    The point of abstraction isn’t to hide information from you. The point of (properly done) abstraction is to allow you to work without having to worry about the details. Abstraction has nothing to do with this. The problem is the side effects of social media. Even if Facebook open source their algorithms, I doubt anyone could have conclusively predicted this. We only know all this because of empirical sampling of the user population.
randycupertino 5y ago
My nieces will instantly delete something they post if it doesn't get enough likes right away which seems so anxiety-inducing. :-/
- thomasahle 5y ago
  I wonder what would happen if deletion wasn't an option. Like how it didn't use to be possible on Twitter. Would that make it worse? Or better, because then everybody would be in the same boat?
  - randycupertino 5y ago
    ha! Just like old hackernews comments :)
  - shrikant 5y ago
    Social media on the blockchain, hmmm...

jakequade 5y ago

They would be upset. 100%. Many of them just don't care about the inner workings of the app.

disconcision 5y ago
agreed, it just seems easier to make being on social media mandatory; then the kids would hate it
Saptarishi 5y ago
Maybe that is the downside of the general policy of abstraction that Devs use, that software should be made to look as simple as possible, and all the apparently "unnecessary intricacies"(which could have disastrous effects) should be dumped under the hood.
- deleted 5y ago
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- worrycue 5y ago
  The point of abstraction isn’t to hide information from you. The point of (properly done) abstraction is to allow you to work without having to worry about the details. Abstraction has nothing to do with this. The problem is the side effects of social media. Even if Facebook open source their algorithms, I doubt anyone could have conclusively predicted this. We only know all this because of empirical sampling of the user population.

randycupertino 5y ago

My nieces will instantly delete something they post if it doesn't get enough likes right away which seems so anxiety-inducing. :-/

thomasahle 5y ago
I wonder what would happen if deletion wasn't an option. Like how it didn't use to be possible on Twitter. Would that make it worse? Or better, because then everybody would be in the same boat?
- randycupertino 5y ago
  ha! Just like old hackernews comments :)
- shrikant 5y ago
  Social media on the blockchain, hmmm...