> "This is Hacker News; the audience is comprised of people who could re-write the core of Facebook in a heartbeat"
I'd amend that to say it's compromised of people who think they could rewrite the core of Facebook in a heartbeat.
The everyday life of HN involves criticizing people and things without domain knowledge, vastly underestimating problems and people, and vastly overestimating oneself.
> "Try this: Open it up right now and read the first 10 to 20 status updates and then count how many you care about"
Then why are you friends with these people?
I see this criticism a lot, but I don't understand it. Facebook is what you make of it. If you friend a bunch of people who post nothing but inanities, of course your news feed is going to be a morass of awfulness.
The best way to get a feed that you care about is to friend people you care about.
And you can do this without being a socially awkward penguin also. I fried lots of people I'm not particularly close with. Some of them turn out to post interesting things to Facebook, others don't, and it's two clicks to deprioritize them from your feed. From that point forward you will hear about them dramatically less, if ever.
In my top 10 posts on my feed right now, I care to know about 9 of them. That's pretty damned good.
I'd amend that to say it's compromised of people who think they could rewrite the core of Facebook in a heartbeat.
The everyday life of HN involves criticizing people and things without domain knowledge, vastly underestimating problems and people, and vastly overestimating oneself.
> "Try this: Open it up right now and read the first 10 to 20 status updates and then count how many you care about"
Then why are you friends with these people?
I see this criticism a lot, but I don't understand it. Facebook is what you make of it. If you friend a bunch of people who post nothing but inanities, of course your news feed is going to be a morass of awfulness.
The best way to get a feed that you care about is to friend people you care about.
And you can do this without being a socially awkward penguin also. I fried lots of people I'm not particularly close with. Some of them turn out to post interesting things to Facebook, others don't, and it's two clicks to deprioritize them from your feed. From that point forward you will hear about them dramatically less, if ever.
In my top 10 posts on my feed right now, I care to know about 9 of them. That's pretty damned good.