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I don't agree. I made friends and noticed other cliques of friends on forums like GBATemp over a decade ago. Regular visitors knew each other after seeing the
by zogrodea 3y ago
I don't agree. I made friends and noticed other cliques of friends on forums like GBATemp over a decade ago.
Regular visitors knew each other after seeing the other users' posts, there are in-jokes, and it's not so different. I would say HN is less self-centered (we don't have unique avatars or signatures) than many old-school forums were. Friendships are less likely to be formed here.
- dgfitz 3y ago> I don't agree. I made friends and noticed other cliques of friends on forums like GBATemp over a decade ago. And I ran a forum, over a decade ago, in which people from all locations/walks of life participated, and I met more than a handful of them in real life. I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
- zogrodea 3y agoI should have specified that, to me personally (but apparently not for you), those old forums were very much like social media. I don’t see a categorical difference between them because the same behaviour is displayed on both of them.
- dgfitz 3y agoI’ve been to both a bar and a church with the same people. They act the same both in a bar and in church. Are bars and churches equivalent?
- zogrodea 3y agoBars and churches have different purposes and people's behaviour in each of them should change because of that. The person acting the same and doing the same things in both would be considered to be behaving very strangely otherwise. I don't know of any ills with social media that weren't present on forums for me. The difference seems to be one of scale. I know my intention for joining both was the same (human connection over common interests).