How Twitter Gamifies Communication
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How Twitter Gamifies Communication
But on Twitter, if you tweet something out and one lone person out there— it moves them, it changes them, it changes their world— that’s not going to register. What that’s going to look like is your tweet got one lonely like and you’re going to feel like a failure. And one of the interesting things about this experience is the process of... See more
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
🎲 Philosophy of Games
- C. Thi Nguyen argues that games uniquely manipulate human agency, allowing players to engage in actions with defined goals and constraints.
📉 Point Systems in Life
- Nguyen highlights how point systems in games (like grades or social media metrics) can distort our values, leading us to prioritize scoring over genuine
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