On: The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the inte...

[cornholio]

>Farhad ends up seeming like an alcoholic talking about how he's on the wagon, and then you look down and there's a bottle in his hand.

I know that feeling! I am social media clean for two months now. All that browsing random news items and commenting on people's posts, it had to stop, it was eating away at my soul. I have no idea why people feel this urge to share their most intimate details of their lives with anonymous people on the internet. It's a disease worse than alcoholism.

Phew, glad to get this of my chest, my completely socially unconnected fellow HNers.

[sokoloff → cornholio]

Is news.yc 0% social media in your mind?

[p1esk → sokoloff]

That was self directed sarcasm (unless my sarcasm detector is broken)

[sokoloff → p1esk]

Doh! On re-reading, I think you're right, but it zoomed right over my head...

[lesserknowndan → sokoloff]

Something interesting here about the inability for people to detect sarcasm in social media posts...