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This is directed at you, but not exclusively. > "a.k.a. "listening to the sound of my own voice"" Why do we have to shit all over people like that? People wri

This is directed at you, but not exclusively. > "a.k.a. "listening to the sound of my own voice"" Why do we have to shit all over people like that? People writing crap onto a website where other people seem to respond positively to it: listening to the sound of one's own voice. Why is it that every time some group of people are having fun, we need to stomp on their sandcastle and call them names? I can see the second part of your argument (though IMO it's massively overblown), but that first part is just mean-spirited and unnecessary.

baddox 14y ago
> Why is it that every time some group of people are having fun, we need to stomp on their sandcastle and call them names? Because, obviously, all social interactions that existed 10 years ago were perfectly natural and acceptable, but new types of social interactions that the youngsters are using are evil and bad and evidence of the speedy decline of civilization.
- alan_cx 14y ago
  That's a silly cheap point that helps no one. I would suggest its because facebook isn't regarded as really being "social". Social used to mean actually meeting people, now it means clicking a box. "Social" has been redefined to a point many people cannot accept its new meaning.
  - prof_hobart 14y ago
    Social also used to mean phoning people up, or before that writing letters (there have been plenty of famous historical friendships that were done an the speed of post).
    - hfsktr 14y ago
      There are still friendships that happen solely through the mail. I have a friend who is a pen pal with someone in prison. I don't know too much about prison so I don't know if there is a reason that theirs is through the mail only instead of using more modern means. Even when I was in school the idea of a pen pal was not foreign (I was in school in the last 9 years. Is that too long ago?).
enraged_camel 14y ago
>>Why do we have to shit all over people like that? People writing crap onto a website where other people seem to respond positively to it: listening to the sound of one's own voice. Because that's basically what it is. Micro-blogging serves two purposes: to seek attention and to feel good about oneself (usually in the form of a rant that one gets off their chest). So describing it as listening to the sound of one's voice seems appropriate.
- yen223 14y ago
  Seems like commenting on HN serves the exact same purposes.

baddox 14y ago

> Why is it that every time some group of people are having fun, we need to stomp on their sandcastle and call them names? Because, obviously, all social interactions that existed 10 years ago were perfectly natural and acceptable, but new types of social interactions that the youngsters are using are evil and bad and evidence of the speedy decline of civilization.

alan_cx 14y ago
That's a silly cheap point that helps no one. I would suggest its because facebook isn't regarded as really being "social". Social used to mean actually meeting people, now it means clicking a box. "Social" has been redefined to a point many people cannot accept its new meaning.
- prof_hobart 14y ago
  Social also used to mean phoning people up, or before that writing letters (there have been plenty of famous historical friendships that were done an the speed of post).
  - hfsktr 14y ago
    There are still friendships that happen solely through the mail. I have a friend who is a pen pal with someone in prison. I don't know too much about prison so I don't know if there is a reason that theirs is through the mail only instead of using more modern means. Even when I was in school the idea of a pen pal was not foreign (I was in school in the last 9 years. Is that too long ago?).

enraged_camel 14y ago

>>Why do we have to shit all over people like that? People writing crap onto a website where other people seem to respond positively to it: listening to the sound of one's own voice. Because that's basically what it is. Micro-blogging serves two purposes: to seek attention and to feel good about oneself (usually in the form of a rant that one gets off their chest). So describing it as listening to the sound of one's voice seems appropriate.

yen223 14y ago
Seems like commenting on HN serves the exact same purposes.