Social Media Critique

The cluster focuses on debates about the nature, problems, and irony of social media, including whether Hacker News qualifies as social media and complaints about it posted on similar platforms.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Politics & Society
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Keywords

US OP HN IMO socialmediadouchebag.net IRC ROI social media social media news qualify complains clicks interaction feed platforms

Sample Comments

Maken Jul 12, 2021 View on HN

People complains about social media even in social media.

rhetocj23 Oct 9, 2025 View on HN

Isnt this what social media is?

do you trust that this won't end up as bad or worse than what's become of social media?

numpad0 Jan 31, 2024 View on HN

Are social media not intended to kill people?

cozuya Mar 2, 2021 View on HN

The OP specifically says "social media".

joejerryronnie Apr 14, 2018 View on HN

I'm pretty sure the OP is satire. What good is social media without the social?

iamdave Aug 12, 2011 View on HN

Socialize seems to be a pretty big contributor to this, what's their stake?

jachee Jun 8, 2017 View on HN

Doesn't HN itself qualify as a social medium?

drdrey Apr 20, 2016 View on HN

Doesn't HN qualify as some sort of social media too?

worldvoyageur Dec 6, 2021 View on HN

" this is the true killer app of social media: it socializes responsibility for bad behavior "