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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jun 2016

    Future generations may be as shocked by our promiscuous use of social media as we are by past generations' smoking.

    7:15 PM - 9 Jun 2016
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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        You actually argued online with random people? Didn't you know how bad that was for your brain?

        18 replies 93 retweets 249 likes
      3. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        I think it might be a bit different: "You filtered your internet so that you'd only see comments from people you agreed with?"

        1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes
      4. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @cperciva @paulg

        As far as things which are bad for the brain go, I think blocking all opposing ideas is far worse than arguing with random people.

        1 reply 8 retweets 6 likes
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      2. Sarah Armstrong‏ @SOA_USA 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        exactly why I quit Facebook and selective use of Twitter. No reason to expose my brain to ALL the craziness in the world.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @SOA_USA

        I don't use FB, but I thought there was less craziness there, no?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Sarah Armstrong‏ @SOA_USA 10 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        I think FB has turned into the junk food of social media. Maybe limiting "crazy" to 140 characters was an actual Twitter strategy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Not Scott F.‏ @notscottf 11 Jun 2016
        Replying to @SOA_USA @paulg

        I think social media is the junk food of social media...

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Pessimists Archive Podcast‏ @PessimistsArc 10 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        Pessimists Archive Podcast Retweeted Pessimists Archive Podcast

        🙃https://twitter.com/pessimistsarc/status/741245463958069248 …

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        Pessimists Archive Podcast @PessimistsArc
        Future generations may be as shocked by our promiscuous book reading as we are by past generations' drinking habits pic.twitter.com/mIvm61LKcN
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      1. Abie Katz‏ @abiekatz 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        social media is like alcohol, consume a bit and it can help you socialize. Get addicted, and it's awful. Addictiveness has 📈 as you ✍

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      2. David Aron Levine‏ @davealevine 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        that's a little silly. Sure our tools are still unrefined but these are about expression and learning, not cancer causing indulgence.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Jeremy Baksht™ 🤘🏻‏ @jbaksht 10 Jun 2016
        Replying to @davealevine

        Paul blocked me

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      1.  🌻 Deb  🌻‏ @DebMWood 10 Jun 2016
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        @DramaticSu Skyping in the Boy's room?

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      1. Adam Messinger‏ @adam_messinger 9 Jun 2016
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        @asymco I recall commercials from childhood reminding one to check couch cushions for cigarette butts before heading to bed.

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      1. Jason Nazar‏Verified account @jasonnazar 9 Jun 2016
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        @rmward I doubt it... more likely get more "promiscuous".... think how people thoughts of tabolids 100 years ago vs today

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      1. Darryl Worsham‏ @dworsham 9 Jun 2016
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        he says from a tweet! 😀

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      1. Adam Kazwell‏ @kaz 9 Jun 2016
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        Adam Kazwell Retweeted Adam Kazwell

        https://twitter.com/kaz/status/492327361447084032 …

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        Adam Kazwell @kaz
        Coming (soon?) to an app near you pic.twitter.com/LrHqcXRrwp
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      1. Nick Erardi‏ @NicholasErardi 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        Does sober me count as a future generation?

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      2. Joël Sepulveda Franusic‏ @jf 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        future historians will love it though! (Assuming that the data survives)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Nadav Benbarak‏ @NadavBenbarak 9 Jun 2016
        Replying to @jf @paulg

        can't imagine the look on the face of the alien archaeologist who will discover the ruins of an AWS datacenter. Eureka!

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