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The usefulness and power of FB and Twitter is for your professional network. It is immensely valuable that relevant people that you know get update on your wha
by rebelidealist 12y ago
The usefulness and power of FB and Twitter is for your professional network.
It is immensely valuable that relevant people that you know get update on your what you are building and any insightful information that you have. Rarely do people keep up with their LinkedIn.
- mattgreenrocks 12y agoThis is why I hate social networks for professional work: a nauseating level of self-promotion. "Wow, my repo has twenty stars!" Great, why did you tell us all that? I'm more interested in discussion or insight. Twitter's character limits make that nearly impossible; relegating it to snark, cheap puns, and humblebrags. We're blind to it here at HN; we worship success and accept that contributing to the noise of it all is a necessary evil so we can build our brand. Meanwhile, everyone's doing the same, hawking e-books/courses/OSS/products/consultancies. It's not communication, it's typing at each other. Now that we're supposed to maintain an online identity, it's utterly exhausting at times. Disclaimer: I'm an old soul. I much preferred the non-social web because we didn't all seem to be pushing something.