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But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a co... See more

Paul Graham • Why Nerds are Unpopular

I’m working hard for them pictures … there was a recent birthday party and she’s in them. Ppl are worried that the little girl will be bullied if it’s posted by Kdot. I’m getting info from some ppl in LA that this is in fact a real thing. I’m doing my job as always.

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One very common pitfall for naive implementations of discovery, ranking or status is to inadvertently stop newcomers from “breaking in”.Any social experience will typically have attention or display mechanisms that need to take relative status into account. A naive implementation of a “suggestions” feed or a “top users” might be to rank content bas... See more

Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto

Ok just to be sure I’m not crazy here - a hypothetical young female teacher at a Catholic school encouraging her students to connect with her on Instagram (in which she has many beach photos, etc) is probably a reportable offense, right?

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But human individuality would not die. Instead it is centralized social media that is dying. Social media network effects are strong, but not infinitely strong. A recent survey found that only a third of U.S. teens use Facebook at all , down from over 70% just half a decade ago. And even before Musk’s takeover, the fraction of teens on Twitt

Noah Smith • The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented

The problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital liberty turned out to be more corporate talking point than reality. We took the agenda-setting function away from individual power brokers and gave it to trillion dollar tech companies, whose faceless

“I contain multitudes” (said the youngblood)

Incidentally, teens and twenty-somethings, more so than the middle-aged and elderly, tend to juggle more identities. In middle and high school, kids have to maintain an identity among classmates at school, then another identity at home with family. Twenty-somethings craft one identity among coworkers duri

Eugene Wei • Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day

base for critiquing many of the policies of Web 2.0 companies that seek to capitalize on free labor or commodify the gifts fans share.

Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

The idea of the internet as a third space for co-identities, "avatars", "pseudonyms", doesn't really exist for normies. They love selfies and IDs - the net is a purely marketing platform for their Face, like the mall. They love Facebook. They'll love ID Identification.

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