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> "You know the thing where you see something on Facebook, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it?" No, actually. I've never used Facebook
by photochemsyn 4y ago
> "You know the thing where you see something on Facebook, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it?"
No, actually. I've never used Facebook, or Twitter. It's like having an automatic +10 on your roll for mental stability and anti-depression. I'd highly recommend it.
Facebooked and Twitterized... it means silo-ized (locked into partisan rabbit holes) and dumbed-down (incapable of comprehending concepts that require more than a few sentences to explain).
- huimang 4y agoYou know the thing where you see something on HN, start reading it or composing a reply, and then you lose it?
- photochemsyn 4y agoWith HN, what happens more often than not is I see an interesting link, click on it, find some very useful information, often quite complex, which I then bookmark and come back to again later, typically learning something of value which I can then incorporate into other projects. There's really too much quality information disseminated here to absorb, so I have to pick and choose. Quality of information on HN is certainly far higher than on the other social media platform I used to frequent, Reddit, where even on the tech subreddits it was a dumpster fire more often than not, to the point where I eventually just deleted my account there. And Reddit's superior to Facebook and Twitter, based on everything I've seen escape from those walled trashpits into the larger internet.