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>I get a burst of endorphins when I receive many Facebook "likes" or upvotes on HackerNews. When I am ignored or downvoted, I feel as if I've been voted out of
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>I get a burst of endorphins when I receive many Facebook "likes" or upvotes on HackerNews. When I am ignored or downvoted, I feel as if I've been voted out of a digital democracy.
Same here, I laugh at myself because of it and usually try very hard to avoid pandering to it. Is it a form of narcissism? It causes me to question my personal autonomy.
- VladRussian2 13y agoyou're trying to fight your nature. People who didn't care for the group's approval were more probably to be banished from the tribal cave and thus die alone in the wilderness. Thus we are descendants of the ones who cared a lot about getting group's approval and avoiding its disapproval. With tptacek leading the pack.
- tptacek 13y agoHave you actually read any of my comments? I'm pretty sure I'm not the leader of any kind of pack here.
- VladRussian2 13y agorelax, i'm just envy of your karma.