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The rise of the anti-social web

13 points by daviday 15y ago

webwanderings 15y ago
It looks like an Ad for Instapaper and Pinboard. What does anti-social web have to do with these web services? If I'm an anti-social, wouldn't I be keeping my web things to myself, as in, locally?
kmfrk 15y ago
This reads like a Thomas Friedman article, and I don't mean that in a good way.
- rhizome 15y ago
  It doesn't help to orient an essay around an undefined term, then insert it into other peoples' quotes. "“I think the market [for anti-social software] is anyone who owns a device,” says Stutzman." The essay only mentions the plugin "Anti-Social," before eliding the name into a whole class of software (comprised of what, we don't find out) and putting the words into the mouths of unsuspecting people. The essay seems to have been written title-first.
tsieling 15y ago
What a tortured article in service of a catchy headline. There's nothing anti-social about wanting to spend time reading or taking time away from an always-connected experience.
rickmb 15y ago
This must be one of the most vapid pieces I've ever read via HN. It just doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and there is absolutely no connection between the title and the text. This is just one step away from one of those fake articles generated by bots for content farming purposes. Oh wait, did I get it?
andrewcooke 15y ago
i like this movement, despite the other posts here. perhaps "less-social" would be a better term, or "slower"? slow-social? something like slow food? the problem is that per-click and per-view economics tend to drive users towards shorter operations. i suspect game mechanics do too. and this connects to something that has been worrying me for a long time - that there are "deep" social mechanisms, which we don't understand well enough to use in a wise, balanced way, that are being exploited for financial gain. to some extent that's always been an issue - i wouldn't be surprised to learn that advertising has been leading sociology / psychology for years - but it seems to be getting worse as the medium (the web v magazines, for example) becomes more immediate.

13 points by daviday 15y ago

It looks like an Ad for Instapaper and Pinboard. What does anti-social web have to do with these web services? If I'm an anti-social, wouldn't I be keeping my web things to myself, as in, locally?

kmfrk 15y ago

This reads like a Thomas Friedman article, and I don't mean that in a good way.

rhizome 15y ago
It doesn't help to orient an essay around an undefined term, then insert it into other peoples' quotes. "“I think the market [for anti-social software] is anyone who owns a device,” says Stutzman." The essay only mentions the plugin "Anti-Social," before eliding the name into a whole class of software (comprised of what, we don't find out) and putting the words into the mouths of unsuspecting people. The essay seems to have been written title-first.

tsieling 15y ago

What a tortured article in service of a catchy headline. There's nothing anti-social about wanting to spend time reading or taking time away from an always-connected experience.

rickmb 15y ago

This must be one of the most vapid pieces I've ever read via HN. It just doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and there is absolutely no connection between the title and the text. This is just one step away from one of those fake articles generated by bots for content farming purposes. Oh wait, did I get it?

andrewcooke 15y ago

i like this movement, despite the other posts here. perhaps "less-social" would be a better term, or "slower"? slow-social? something like slow food? the problem is that per-click and per-view economics tend to drive users towards shorter operations. i suspect game mechanics do too. and this connects to something that has been worrying me for a long time - that there are "deep" social mechanisms, which we don't understand well enough to use in a wise, balanced way, that are being exploited for financial gain. to some extent that's always been an issue - i wouldn't be surprised to learn that advertising has been leading sociology / psychology for years - but it seems to be getting worse as the medium (the web v magazines, for example) becomes more immediate.