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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What do you mean by first come, first served exactly? Are you refering specifically to interactions between news outlets and users?
I mean, the quality of content hardly matters if you're late. If you waited just one day to respond to this post, no one would notice your comment.
Fortunately, you can just sit on it and wait for the inevitable bevvy of reposts.
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It's not like there's only one thread about a specific subject. There's always a new post to add your commentary to, often enough a post of the exact same link/meme/question. If you come late to the first one you see, spend some time refining your idea, wait five minutes, and comment on the next one.
Yes, but there's no guarantee that this topic will ever be discussed again. It's a bit like when you think of a good comeback after a verbal exchange - you have the right argument, but it doesn't matter anymore. Next time, you'll be prepared, but next time may never come.
There are no guarantees in life. Missing out on something isn't a problem with where you find that thing, and it's not your fault, either. You don't get to do everything you want, sorry.
Sure. But what I'm getting at is that this way of consuming information likely leads to people being anything but well informed. Because of this social media "newswoth" logic, they mainly read content that isn't very well thought out – if only because it was written under time pressure.
William Randolph Hearst has entered the chat.
I guess that is true, but that would only be a negative thing if you wanted attention(which is not necessarily a bad thing). If one is not sure people would respond your comment, one can always mention a post from the past and ask whatever information you were looking. And I would argue this happens in real life aswell, you can't always force a joke on an old topic at a dinner or party.
This, basically
https://xkcd.com/1019/
That’s a very good point. Also, the later comments don’t get seen by many people, and that’s why they don’t get many votes either.
Obviously, sorting changes all that, but I don’t think many people sort posts and comments by new. If you don’t touch the settings, things are sorted by hot.
What kind of slob gets their opinions from the comments sections of a local news outlet?
Hell, do major publications even have comments sections anymore? I'm lucky to see the first paragraph of a story after the barrage of "Please Sign In!" pop-ups. Nevermind getting all the way down to the bottom of the article to see what some random assholes think about it.
I mean...
[Gestures broadly at the state of the world]
People see headlines and the comment section of the social media platform where that headline was posted.
Web 2.0 was such a nice idea on paper.
It was great when they'd tricked investors into giving users an ecosystem with no (obvious) ads.
That makes sense