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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:36:08 -0500
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Ev Williams
ev@me.dm
Posting your thoughts to the internet for the world to (potentially) see is an utterly unnatural act.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:40:42 -0500
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Lisa
MiaLis79@mastodon.social
@ev
It may be unnatural but here we are.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't be using social media at all.
I think it's safe to assume, people use it for various reasons:
Boredom
loneliness
Addiction
Sharing pertinent info (that they deem pertinent)
Power
Power
And, as a primary or secondary news source- legit or not depending on person who seeks news.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:55:21 -0500
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️
funcrunch@mastodon.lol
@MiaLis79
@ev
Considering Ev co-founded Twitter and Blogger and founded
@medium
, I assumed he was just making a shitpost. 😛
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:28:55 -0500
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Arie Goldshlager
ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social
@ev
Thanks for co-creating the platform that was best for doing so...
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:31:10 -0500
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teaneedz 🌱
teaneedz@mastodon.social
@ev
but welcome to the party :catjam:
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:56:06 -0500
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vktonik
vktonik@home.social
@ev
Funny you should say that. I was looking at some of my blog posts from 2006 and wondering why anyone would post such useless stuff. All I can say was back then it was all new and exciting. Now I don't think I would post stuff like that. But now is a different time than 2006. I've grown much more private since social media sites encouraged us to post every trivial thought publicly.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:47:48 -0500
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Ev Williams
ev@me.dm
@MiaLis79
Are you trapped inside the internet? Unable to stop?
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:48:29 -0500
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Ev Williams
ev@me.dm
@funcrunch
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@medium
Not really. I think it’s very strange. It’s not how humans evolved to interact.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:55:03 -0500
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Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️
funcrunch@mastodon.lol
@ev
@MiaLis79
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How do you think we should interact then? I have read suggestions that trying to connect meaningfully with more than a certain number of people is sub-optimal or even futile, which makes sense. But people post on blogs and social media for different purposes. Not all of them actually want interaction, just a platform to broadcast.
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:14:40 -0500
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Scott M. Stolz
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Ev Williams
It satisfies a basic human need: the need to be heard.
We are social creatures. As much as someone might want to be alone, it is not in our nature. We long to find others like us, our tribe, people who we can related to, and people who will accept us for who we are.
Communicating on the internet is no different than using written language, or telegraphs, or telephones. A new technique of communicating. Regardless of what method people use, people communicate to satisfy their human needs.
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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:51:59 -0500
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Lisa
MiaLis79@mastodon.social
@ev
Well that would be a bit creepy if I took your question literally.
My time on the internet is spent when I'm done with my day, mainly at night because I have insomnia.
As for being unable to stop, I don't spend hours on the internet. I don't keep my phone w/me to check in on diff. apps.
So, no... but many are & have forgotten how to use a phone to call others, drop by- things that were taken for granted some time ago.
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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:16:43 -0500
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alexisw
alexisw@xoxo.zone
@ev
is it? Has seemed only a hop skip and a jump from correspondence via paper letters, to me.
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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:49:37 -0500
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Arie Goldshlager
ariegoldshlager@mstdn.social
@ev
Until it becomes a second nature...
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Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:45:29 -0500
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Coty Rosenblath
coty@mastodon.social
@ev
@funcrunch
@MiaLis79
@medium
In a sense you’re certainly right, but in another you may not be. We evolved in such a way that we eventually developed language and writing and various media. Our genome/body/brain might not be optimal for doing it, but that is why we have tools.
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Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:07:27 -0500
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EdenDestroyer (He/Him)
edendestroyer@masto.ai
@ev
im not sure how thats "unnatural" when it happens and is happening at large. And does this mean all thoughts or just contextual thoughts?
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Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:28:33 -0500
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Humbird0 Fandom
humbird0@mstdn.party
@ev
And yet it is human nature to share.
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