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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 13 Feb 2015

    If you could create a variant of Twitter where this didn't happen, it might be Twitter's successor: http://nyti.ms/1EjYlaP 

    12:34 PM - 13 Feb 2015
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      1. Drew Crawford‏ @atcrawford 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg if you could create a world where that doesn’t happen it might be a successor to our current one…

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      1. Michael S Galpert‏ @msg 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg the variant is called snapchat

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      1. Josh‏ @joshuanguyen 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg our social networks aren't 'social' for empathy yet. perhaps public networks aren't by nature.

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      1. Bernd Worsch‏ @Tegwick 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg Social media swallows our freedom to make mistakes. We do not yet comprehend what this does to society. #irreversible

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      1. Eamon Leonard‏Verified account @EamonLeonard 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg you might have to re-engineer human mob psychology first.

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      1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg You could, but then you would have to either target it to a restricted subset of people, or to change human nature.

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      1. Shadab Farooqui‏ @shadab 21 Feb 2015
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        @paulg @mcuban thinks @CyberDustApp is the one.

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      1. Chandrashekhar‏ @cshekhar 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg technology is no the problem, we are!

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      1. Joe Mattern‏ @joemattern 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg A variant that guards against stupidity?

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      1. autophen‏ @autophen 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg replace "twitter" with "our society"

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      1. Zach Gotsch‏ @CodeAthena 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg I'm worried that the fault is not in our tools, but in ourselves

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      1. Courtland Caldwell‏ @caldwecr 13 Feb 2015
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        . @paulg is yik yak the answer to the shaming problem?

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      1. Akbar Ahmed‏ @Akbar501 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg Good read for parents to motivate them on educating their kids on how to be SM savvy.

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      1. Ted Herman‏ @tedherman 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg True, but let us be humble enough to acknowledge that some things do not have technology solutions.

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      1. ahbou.git‏ @ahbou_ 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg that's exactly why many choose anonymity

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      1. TesTeq‏ @TesTeq 13 Feb 2015
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        .@paulg You mean the NextTwitter should censor our stupid tweets?

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      1. Franklin Ho‏ @franklin_ho 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg It already exists. It's called Facebook.

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      1. Tose Nikolov‏ @ToseNikolov 13 Feb 2015
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        @paulg The fault lies with the people that proclaim themselves the morally superior.

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      1. Julien Barbier‏ @julienbarbier42 15 Feb 2015
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        @paulg that would be Twitter without ppl... Google+ ?

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      1. Ma'am‏ @FinDomMaam 14 Feb 2015
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        @paulg I couldn't stop reading the article. It is interesting to find out what happens to people caught in the crosshairs.

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