Comment by jafitc
10 years ago
> Serving something you want to read doesn't mean there should be no criticism for serving it in a bad way.
There's criticism of serving something in a bad way, and then there is calling someone an "idiot".
Should we instantly call every single person an idiot for making a mistake?
I wouldn't say that the food was bad here, it was just a bit cold.
> We live in the "social sharing age". People even share what they had for lunch. If anything, people should be encouraged to share LESS or more meaninful stuff only.
This is off topic, but I don't think people should share less. If you are bothered by it, you should read less. Maybe we should have better tools for filtering. But information is everything, something as banal as "I had a bad day" has value. Tracking social sentiment for example.
>There's criticism of serving something in a bad way, and then there is calling someone an "idiot".
True.
>Should we instantly call every single person an idiot for making a mistake?
No, but what if they do that first by pointing fingers at the stupid FB devs?
>This is off topic, but I don't think people should share less. If you are bothered by it, you should read less.
This still leaves the problem of an overproduction of pointless stuff, which aside from the ecological issues and time wasted by those producing it, also makes deciding "what to read" among the avalance of BS more difficult.