You know honestly, we as an entire whole of the world should just go back to hands on training. Forget studying the same crap for 15-20 years of our lives to have a damn calculator to solve basic adding and subtracting that's done on a cash register in our daily lives. How many of you solve out of this world equations in your daily life? 95% of the world doesn't. We all use basic add and subtract. Hardly anyone knows how to start a fire, or kill game to survive. If the internet goes out and you can't check that daily habit of yours, your life is turned upside down. Its a waste to study all these years to find out you don't need to figure out a right side of triangle to drop a tree. If you can count to 10 on your fingers, what's the point of an in depth educational system.
What ever happened to the home of the brave and the land of the free. Well shit, appearntly it went down the drain about 200 years ago. Can't own a weapon of your choice without bribing people anymore. Shit can't even own a suppressed weapon without registering with the FEDs and dishing out 5 years and 10k later. Go to a 3rd world country where its ok to knock on the door and see someone owning an AK47 without it being registered or bribed. Your ass would be shot. This country has seriously went to shit. Home of the mother fucking pussies and slaved to your own fucking land.
I closed my Facebook account in 2009 and stopped using all social media accounts since then. So I couldn't be eligible for being paid to deactivate an account that doesn't exist, but I wouldn't want to be paid to have account period. Countless hours of peoples life are wasted scrolling through feeds that amount to a pile of dirt sitting in your yard.
This isn’t social media. Nor is Reddit or other similar sites. The main criteria is “social”. That means human relationships, friendships, family, etc. I don’t have any sort of relationship with anyone on HN, Reddit, etc. We are all strangers passing in the night. Basically anti-social media.
But it’s not really. What we’re doing here is by definition social. It’s just a different flavor of social. It’s surprising to me that you think talking to other people on the internet is somehow anti-social.
It's not anti-social, but it is anti-"social media". HN has made a lot of wonderful design choices that prevent it from becoming Reddit or Twitter. Hiding points on comments, not showing indicators for replies (making it easier to move on), solid moderation that allows for diverse viewpoints while avoiding a lot of toxicity, etc.
This is not considered a social media site. Just because someone creates a definition of what they think a term should be defined as to group all social interaction together is bullshit. One could say because my program here makes bank transactions automatically for me would be deemed social media as well, because the media of a mass said so. Email and a password are grouped now as social media by your terms and the masses. This is merely a place to receive information based on links that people provide as news. I am just going to group you into the idiot group that thinks everything internet related is social media.
... and wasting time on hobbies, and tv, and video games, and religious meetings, and comicons, and hiking the same trail hundreds of thousands before you have, and possibly breathing. Why do people also let others know they dropped social media and are probably better human beings than the rest of us who use it in moderation...
I never said I was better than you. I was merely making a point that 95 percent of people waste their time on interacting with social media sites. I can't believe your comparing hobbies to this issue. I can understand TV and video games. I think its a good thing to let other people know your not using social media sites. Its really an addiction like using any other main stream drug.
A forum is not anything like social media. People think that any internet site where UGC is posible is social media? Not.
HN, for instance, is not based on finding friends, creating glamorous profiles, posting daily and weekly updates about one’s life, or reading other’s posts. It has no images, hashtags, auto playing videos, or your cousin and high school sweetheart arguing in the comments of your post about your luncheon at the Hilton if you should be even at the Hilton because of your or their political views.
No, HN is just a topical forum. The only shadow of social media on it is when people post links to YouTube, which I don’t get or understand why it’s allowed. Why not post all the links to YouTube every day? If O wanted to watch videos about Perl, I’d go to YouTube.
I suspect there may be two or three different definitions of “social media”. What happens in the comment threads on internet forums is definitely social and writing is a form of media. People receive karma for posting good content just like people get likes, shares, and retweets on other sites. We may not use our real names but we all still have an identity. It may be more similar than you realize. I totally agree we’re anything but the type of basic crap you describe. But we’re not anti-social, either.
Joshua 10:13, Joshua commands the sun and moon to stand still for about a whole day. Isaiah 38:8 God brings the sun backwards to set the shadow of the sundail of Ahaz back 10 degrees. Genesis God sets the sun, moon and stars inside the firmament with us. Or the great flood that is recorded with similar versions all across the world. Even the Roman Catholics believed the earth was flat at the time of Christopher Columbus. There's a reason why sea level is always at zero. Point being its about worshipping our heavenly Father that created all things, and set aside all of man's teachings to forsake the things of this world to have enternal life.
