On giving up social news

Arve Bersvendsen, a virtually unknown blog blog journal ger hipster (not that there’s anything wrong with that, I’m one myself), made a point of blog blog journal ging blog journal -keeping about why he’s giving up Reddit – instead of just posting his dissatisfaction on a “self” link on Reddit itself. That’s kind of odd, both because it assumes his blog journal readers are familiar with Reddit and that it’ll reach significant notoriety on Reddit.

But wait — his post slug, the post-name-in-the-URL, gives him away. It actually says “Social web is dead”. He changed his mind after starting to write the post and saving a draft version. Whoa, dude — not that I’m willing to defend the strong (yet not as strong as that one) that the “social web”, which I’ll be forced to define, is alive and kicking. But that is a strong proposition.

The thing is, his post doesn’t say anything about Reddit or the “social web”, however you define it. It’s just a list of topics that come up often on said social website (his “last hope”) that don’t interest him at all. That’s no evidence that the “social web” however you define it is dead, just that you happen not to belong in the particular speck of land in the internet landscape that is Reddit.

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Being alive: a primer

Here’s to the fucked up.
The crazy ones.
The misfits.
The chronic wallflowers
The suicidal.
The manic.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
And while some may see you as the ones with weird issues,
I see life.
Because sometimes, just sometimes,
the people who are fucked up enough to think they don’t fit in this world,
Are the ones who change it.

1. Trinity said it best. The Matrix cannot tell you who you are.

Just as I stole the general structure of the opening verse from an old Macintosh ad, I stole this soundbite and others from Alone from The Last Psychiatrist. Credit where it’s due: it’s another blog blog journal ger hipster quoting the Wachowskis about the same context I do. I’m also gonna steal some soundbites from Jerod Poore, the mastermind behind Crazy Meds! All of these might be used way out of context. Do read these guys. They kick ass, know more about the psychostuff than I do and make for general pleasant reading. But let me cut to the chase and repeat it.

The Matrix cannot tell you who you are. The Matrix cannot tell you who you are.

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