What Reddit's 'ridiculous' button tells us about mortality(bbc.co.uk)
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What Reddit's 'ridiculous' button tells us about mortality
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32660378
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It seems completely foreign to me that someone would press a button like that and think there wouldn't be social consequences for it. I can't think of a single thing I've ever done in my whole life that I wouldn't or haven't been judged for.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how "people's clothes don't matter." I was saying that, yeah, in theory they don't matter. I think they don't matter. So when someone goes out of their way to dress oddly, I know it matters to them, and that contradicts my belief that clothes don't matter.
So obviously they do matter, even if I want to believe they don't. Things that don't matter just don't get attention. What is important is knowing why the important things are important, not simply what the important things are.
So even if people won't care about a silly button press, they will care about your apathy to it.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how "people's clothes don't matter." I was saying that, yeah, in theory they don't matter. I think they don't matter. So when someone goes out of their way to dress oddly, I know it matters to them, and that contradicts my belief that clothes don't matter.
So obviously they do matter, even if I want to believe they don't. Things that don't matter just don't get attention. What is important is knowing why the important things are important, not simply what the important things are.
So even if people won't care about a silly button press, they will care about your apathy to it.
Here's the actual article, and which has nothing about "mortality" or such nonsense; it's more about governmental open data programs: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/04/27-red...
What fluff articles tell us about BBC its quality. That article was as pointless as its title.
That kind of stuff was exactly why I stopped frequenting Reddit years ago. It became less of a place to find interesting discussions and more about engaging in mass participation in-jokes and memes.
Or maybe it was always a waste of time and I just got too old...
Or maybe it was always a waste of time and I just got too old...
Reddit is huge, your interesting discussions are still there, you have to join the right subreddits.
I was curious and simply pressed twice on the button.
Only afterwards I started reading the subreddit and what it was all about. Now it feels kind of overhyped and now I feel kind of left out? It feels like everybody cares about something that I am simply .. apathic about?