When I consider that sharing means "giving others part of the value of something scarce" most social media "sharing" is really anti-sharing
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"attention" and "cognitive surplus" are weird substances that can either be valuable or waste products, like water/surface water
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surface water (in wet states) is a common menace, the law allows it to be drained by any reasonable means
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but riparian water is valuable, so the law assigns rights to it, the form usually depending on how dry the state is
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seems like information/attention hasn't quite evolved to have norms/laws distinguishing these forms
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. On Twitter, the actual scarce resource is quality followers. So the most meaningful sharing action is actually an RT
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right?! People who say they only favorite are like banks who only accept deposits and not withdrawals!


