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coffeefirsttoday at 12:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me.

I don’t think you could have made a similar argument about heavy trash tv watchers. They may have had less to talk about, you may have found them less interesting, but it didn’t literally alter their personalities.

We have a big problem.


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logged4upvotingtoday at 2:21 PM

I would also add that having this kind of detection superpower probably requires the observer to be a social media addict too (low-key).

marliechillertoday at 1:30 PM

Do you have examples of what weird stuff they would say? Im having a hard time imagining what you mean exactly.

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adithyassekhartoday at 1:32 PM

Do you have examples? Asking for a friend.

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