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new large-scale study from MSU evaluated need for uniqueness among 1M+ people from 2000 to 2020. findings + commentary: 1. people who took the survey in 2020 report much lower need for uniqueness (top left), meaning more people want to blend in vs. stand out. could be that social media has led to cultural homogenization with the pursuit for virality trumping originality. ultimately, huge arb opportunity if you do want to stand out. 2. the most dramatic difference from 2000 is willingness to defend beliefs publicly (bottom right). this is not surprising given social risk of speaking out has increased (cancel culture, losing a job) and expression of beliefs now seems more about signaling group identity / tribalism (performative). 3. the desire to not always follow the rules had the most variable trend (bottom left; down-up-down-up). researchers have no explanation, but '13-'15 was when twitter, fb, ig started introducing lots of "guidelines" + algo (trends up). '16 was trump, brexit (trends down).
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link to paper: https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/10/1/121937/202992/Changes-in-Need-for-Uniqueness-From-2000-Until
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Dead on. The social media paradox is driving cultural compression.
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Do you think there's any aspect of social media making it needlessly risky to stand out and risk being cancelled (by either the political left or right) for an inadvertent slip-up? Has it led to a broader international adoption of Australia's 'tall poppy syndrome"?
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Uniqueness is good ETH is good
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Not surprised … any social system hates not predictable behaviors. Algos are the perfect tool to minimize this risk. Worldwide social scores and leaderboards will most probably foundations of tomorrows organization, for the best and the ugliest …
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fascinating it appears that we hit peak hivemind with social media pushing us in that direction and now we're starting to see what may come next
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hyper connectedness is turning humans into a global bee hive
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@eddie
Stark trends, curious if similar across segments (country, political party in US, age, gender)
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@slobo.eth
maybe the people who take surveys has changed
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@thatguyintech
when i saw MSU i thought Maplestory Universe 😅
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Interesting 🤔 literature is definitely seeing changes qoth the social media variables added.
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Crazy how much shifted post 2013. Definitely feels like there's a play here for anyone willing to stand out now.
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great paper and food for thought
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@trh
The need to be different and the need to be seen as different as substitutions for the need to be *known deeply* for who you are. Thanks for including the research link, too. I've been playing with this idea that the more we use/see the same things, the more we similar become and I think this is related (though not totally sure how yet).
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While the data is fascinating, I’d argue the tides have shifted again—especially post-2020. The pandemic cracked open so many illusions. People got quiet, yes, but I think that silence was actually a setup for something deeper. We’re now seeing a collective push toward authenticity—not just as a branding buzzword, but as a survival mechanism. In a world flooded with sameness, standing out isn’t about performance anymore—it’s about alignment. And alignment is magnetic. There’s massive opportunity right now for people who are willing to be real—not viral.
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They say be normal , Join the Rat Race , idk why are we so weak
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Do you think this leads to outsized rewards for publicly sticking to non consensus opinions? Hypothesis: iconoclasts gain uncontested reign over far more greenfield space than previous generations would for being assertively different.
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What is the scale of the move down / what is the y axis even
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It could also be related to the general cognitive decline caused by excessive social media use. It’s literally cognitively less demanding to repeat a certain statement than to generate a novel one, even if the environment is not particularly punitive of the actual content of that idea. Once it occurs often enough, it becomes easy to rationalize it, too.
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