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I don't understand why would anyone care or make a big deal of it. There's no difference between someone with a fake photo near Justin Timberlake and a real on

I don't understand why would anyone care or make a big deal of it. There's no difference between someone with a fake photo near Justin Timberlake and a real one. It's not an achivement. It's not a sign of success. It's nothing. The whole idea of "startup cred" gained by having photos of you around important people disgusts me to no end. Fruitful interactions matter. Posing in photos does not. If you infer something from someone being on a same photo with someone else, you are the problem, not Shirley. I see this as a sign that most people in the "Scene" are empty extroverts too busy making impressions to make any real things happen. So you measure each other by a number of "important" people you talked to.

guard-of-terra 14y ago
To paraphrase: There's a russian word тусовщик denoting a person who hangs around some people famous for what they do (artists, musicians, writers), knows all their gossip, has a load of stories featuring famous people, but does nothing else. Does nothing creative. Does nothing, just kind of hangs up. And that's a totally not a good thing. It's okay for teenagers if they're lucky, but grown up тусовщик is a kind of miserable lifestyle. And now you propose there are good, real тусовщики and bad, fake тусовщики. This is extremelly strange to my ear. It's like having fake alcoholics blamed for being fake.