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Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I use it to interact with information, data, etc. I can live without it, but prefer having it because ther

Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I use it to interact with information, data, etc. I can live without it, but prefer having it because there is always something I want to know more about. When I was a kid, the source was an over-priced encyclopedia. Now, it's a search and to me, that's the magic. Also, you can't Ctrl-F search paper, and that's a huge downside, imo. YMMV.

kaashif 3y ago
> Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I am a person. You have interacted with me using tech. How are you defining "tech" exactly? I use messaging apps all the time to organise things with friends or talk to distant family members. There's no better way to do it, I can't meet everyone in person and if plans change, it's better to know sooner.
- reidjs 3y ago
  Maybe they meant to interact with people they know*
  - sonicanatidae 3y ago
    Not quite. I have 2 accounts that anyone could argue are social media and this is one of them. The other is so specialized that I'm fairly sure no one here uses it and I mainly use it for reference. An account was needed to search. Since I have an account, I will occasionally provide an answer to someone that has a question that I've had in the past, but even that's rare. Otherwise, I use Teams at work, but that's not social media.
- codingdave 3y ago
  > How are you defining "tech" exactly? The better question may be: How are you defining an interaction? This may be a hot take, but I don't consider HN to be personal interaction. We post content individually. We read it individually. Replies are about the content, not about the person. I am replying to something you wrote, but know nothing about you as a person, so it is hard to claim we have a personal interaction together just because of this comment.
  - anonymouskimmer 3y ago
    This is what most interactions are like. I've seen on many long-term forums, or even sub-reddits on Reddit, people really get to know each other.
  - kaashif 3y ago
    I never claimed we had a personal interaction, I only claimed you interacted with me, a person. I define it the same way any dictionary defines it: you acted and it has an effect on me. I agree that personal interactions are hard to come by online, but this is different to interacting with people at a surface level online.
    - anonymouskimmer 3y ago
      User ID you're responding to is not the same user ID you first responded to.
- sonicanatidae 3y ago
  I never said I never interact with people, but it's definitely much, much less than I interact with data and really, it's incidental and not the point of me and the tech.

kaashif 3y ago

> Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I am a person. You have interacted with me using tech. How are you defining "tech" exactly? I use messaging apps all the time to organise things with friends or talk to distant family members. There's no better way to do it, I can't meet everyone in person and if plans change, it's better to know sooner.

reidjs 3y ago
Maybe they meant to interact with people they know*
- sonicanatidae 3y ago
  Not quite. I have 2 accounts that anyone could argue are social media and this is one of them. The other is so specialized that I'm fairly sure no one here uses it and I mainly use it for reference. An account was needed to search. Since I have an account, I will occasionally provide an answer to someone that has a question that I've had in the past, but even that's rare. Otherwise, I use Teams at work, but that's not social media.
codingdave 3y ago
> How are you defining "tech" exactly? The better question may be: How are you defining an interaction? This may be a hot take, but I don't consider HN to be personal interaction. We post content individually. We read it individually. Replies are about the content, not about the person. I am replying to something you wrote, but know nothing about you as a person, so it is hard to claim we have a personal interaction together just because of this comment.
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  This is what most interactions are like. I've seen on many long-term forums, or even sub-reddits on Reddit, people really get to know each other.
- kaashif 3y ago
  I never claimed we had a personal interaction, I only claimed you interacted with me, a person. I define it the same way any dictionary defines it: you acted and it has an effect on me. I agree that personal interactions are hard to come by online, but this is different to interacting with people at a surface level online.
  - anonymouskimmer 3y ago
    User ID you're responding to is not the same user ID you first responded to.
sonicanatidae 3y ago
I never said I never interact with people, but it's definitely much, much less than I interact with data and really, it's incidental and not the point of me and the tech.