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Kind of an extreme view you're giving on this social media site...
by bryan_w 3y ago
Kind of an extreme view you're giving on this social media site...
- 2024throwaway 3y agoIt's a bit reductive to compare a tech news discussion site with the kind of social media being discussed in the article.
- latency-guy2 3y agoNot reductive at all, just something you personally dislike the comparison of. Very big difference.
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- 2024throwaway 3y agoThe article is titled “They’re knowingly addicting kids”. Please explain how Hacker News is doing that.
- fragmede 3y agoTo it's credit, HN does have a noprocrast feature, but I can easily see a teenager with poor self control spending every waking moment on this site, dreaming of being an entrepreneur, to the detriment of their studies and social life. I'm an adult and doing that so kids (teenagers) are even more helpless. The very nature of social media is addicting, Facebook didn't have to do anything special to get kids addicted to it.
- noduerme 3y agoWhat you say is true - HN might resemble a false ladder to popularity for a very small subset of teenagers - but content is at least as important as form. It's okay for there to be balkanized subsections of the internet that lead to serious discussion and which might occasionally lead to radical obsessions; take away the internet and that's just society in the streets of France in 1789 or Rome in 49 BC. The major difference is whether they find it or it finds them. Because if you find it, you can walk away from it once you grow up. If it finds you, you lose yourself and fail to develop the structure for independent / critical thought.