Cedric Chin
@cedric
Using social media is only worth it if you have an ability to profit from such usage. Otherwise I’m fairly certain the costs outweigh the benefits.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
Profit here equals literal, bankable currency or something more intangible? And what would you count as the costs?
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Cedric Chin
@cedric
Yeah I think both. Like if I’m on Twitter I’m typically posting with a very specific reason of promoting Commoncog (or related ideas that will be covered by Commoncog) The other example to use is to monitor crypto market sentiment.
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Cedric Chin
@cedric
The costs are psychological. Many mistaken models of the world on Twitter, easy to get mind hijacked, triggered, get into a state of emotional disregulation.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
Isn’t that the same as any social activity with 1) diversity above a certain threshold and 2) a large number of participants? Twitter has just grown enough to be super potent. Is there even a sustainable middle between a totally insular social media exp. and a chaotically dissonant one?
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Cedric Chin
@cedric
Yes there is a sustainable middle: you have extreme outcome orientation when engaging in the activity. Which leads me back to my original post. :)
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
Sustainable as a minority type of actor in a larger system, sure. My Q was more like, “can you have a social media system above a certain scale that doesn’t require extreme outcome orientation to be tolerable?”
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