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Yeah, this person screams mental issues to me. He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions. Maybe autistic or with some hea

by cptaj 4y ago

Yeah, this person screams mental issues to me. He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions. Maybe autistic or with some heavy anxiety. Not exactly news worthy IMO...

BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
>”He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions.” This seems like a good description for most of Reddit. I have a feeling that the platform’s karma system is geared towards incentivizing these kinds of posts and thought patterns.
- NiloCK 4y ago
  It's both less and more specific than that. Subreddits are ideal (or at least best-yet) implementations echo chambers. A particular idiosyncratic groupthink emerges for each subreddit, and the platform then filters incoming communications according to it. Because it's gamified, people are actively competing to conform to the local cultures. And here we are, where some guy believes that rekindling a prior conversation with a friend or acquaintance is psychotic.
joenot443 4y ago
It's just reddit-brain, IMO. You're right, it's not news worthy. I saw it happen to a few people from my high school. Above average IQ people spending too much time reading reddit and ending up with some weirdly elitist but also juvenile opinions on social interactions. Stuff like "DAE think small talk is pointless?" or "I never realized how impossible it is to make friends in adulthood" is pretty common. Subs like /r/relationships, /r/offmychest, /r/amitheasshole, etc. are the worst because while the topics are about offline, real-life encounters, it's mostly just very-online, neuroatypical folks sharing their thoughts. One ends up thinking they're getting a fair majority perspective, when really you're getting the perspective of what's otherwise a pretty marginal outgroup.
- johnny22 4y ago
  > "I never realized how impossible it is to make friends in adulthood" is pretty common. Articles about this topic have been on very respected news sites for awhile, so at least that one exists outside the bubble you're referring to.
  - nicolas_t 4y ago
    I have plenty of non-online friends who are not on reddit who keep telling me that it's difficult to make friends in adulthood so, yes it's rather common outside of that bubble. Some people just never really learned to initiate new friendship and only relied on people inviting them, being in a university with events helping new friendships etc..

by cptaj 4y ago

BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago

>”He has all these weird extremist overthought concepts about social interactions.” This seems like a good description for most of Reddit. I have a feeling that the platform’s karma system is geared towards incentivizing these kinds of posts and thought patterns.

NiloCK 4y ago
It's both less and more specific than that. Subreddits are ideal (or at least best-yet) implementations echo chambers. A particular idiosyncratic groupthink emerges for each subreddit, and the platform then filters incoming communications according to it. Because it's gamified, people are actively competing to conform to the local cultures. And here we are, where some guy believes that rekindling a prior conversation with a friend or acquaintance is psychotic.

joenot443 4y ago

It's just reddit-brain, IMO. You're right, it's not news worthy. I saw it happen to a few people from my high school. Above average IQ people spending too much time reading reddit and ending up with some weirdly elitist but also juvenile opinions on social interactions. Stuff like "DAE think small talk is pointless?" or "I never realized how impossible it is to make friends in adulthood" is pretty common. Subs like /r/relationships, /r/offmychest, /r/amitheasshole, etc. are the worst because while the topics are about offline, real-life encounters, it's mostly just very-online, neuroatypical folks sharing their thoughts. One ends up thinking they're getting a fair majority perspective, when really you're getting the perspective of what's otherwise a pretty marginal outgroup.

johnny22 4y ago
> "I never realized how impossible it is to make friends in adulthood" is pretty common. Articles about this topic have been on very respected news sites for awhile, so at least that one exists outside the bubble you're referring to.
- nicolas_t 4y ago
  I have plenty of non-online friends who are not on reddit who keep telling me that it's difficult to make friends in adulthood so, yes it's rather common outside of that bubble. Some people just never really learned to initiate new friendship and only relied on people inviting them, being in a university with events helping new friendships etc..