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On all these sites, including this one, why is the engagement model to comment on things? At family gatherings, prior to COVID, I always noticed real life chit
by cpt1138 5y ago
On all these sites, including this one, why is the engagement model to comment on things? At family gatherings, prior to COVID, I always noticed real life chit chat to be bizarrely opinionated and biased as soon as it veered from the weather or traffic. What is the value we are getting from commenting, that makes it “worth it” to us to give up anonymity?
- ILMostro7 5y agoWe are social animals Sense of gratification from reinforcing our understanding of an issue, our world Sense of accomplishment for being upvoted or proclaimed to be smart or even popular Appeasing a yearning to be noticed Short-sighted distractions to alleviate other pressures and hardships in daily life Making little etchings on cyber cave walls to mark that we were here Some other unknown reason that we may understand at a later time in history ... Thanks for the question, btw. It made me think more than I had anticipated