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Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?
Relevent to this link is a line from PG's "Acceleration of Addictiveness" (http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html)
"We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to."
- ldayley 14y agoRelevent to this link is the final line from PG's Essay "Acceleration of Addictiveness" (http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html): "We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to."
- EvilTerran 14y ago"Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?[1] Some employers and psychologists say[2] staying away from social media is 'suspicious'", asks the Daily Mail[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel#Unsupported_a.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel#Unsupported_a.... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
- ldayley 14y agoI absolutely agree. But even with little substance, the fact that a major publication is saying things like this is relevant - it shifts thought and dialogue in less reasoned circles for the worse. I posted to highlight the absurdity, and to gain insights from the HN community so I could form a better argument against this line of thinking.
- EvilTerran 14y agoFair enough. It might have been worth making that clear in a top-level reply when you made the submission, though -- people might get the wrong idea otherwise. There's been a couple of other submissions of articles citing this one -- and a bit of discussion of this daft notion on each: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350529 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350529 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350221 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350221
- googoobaby 14y agoIs founding Facebook a sign you're a sociopath?