For all those "thanks" whores out there!!!

Damokc

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415940086842866.html?mod=WSJASIA_newsreel_lifeStyle#articleTabs%3Darticle

Im Only 71Kg

kiss my arse.

Logical Fallacy

I never thank a whore.

And rarely pay them.

Celly Smunt

tl;dr

anybody who likes this comment thank it. xxxxx

El Weirdo

Damokc wrote: »

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415940086842866.html?mod=WSJASIA_newsreel_lifeStyle#articleTabs%3Darticle

By NEIL STRAUSS

If you happen to be reading this article online, you'll notice that right above it, there is a button labeled "like." Please stop reading and click on "like" right now.
Thank you. I feel much better. It's good to be liked.

There's a growing cultural obsession with being blogged, digged, tweeted and liked. Now add Google's +1 to the mix and it's just like being in high school all over again, says author Neil Strauss.


Don't forget to comment on, tweet, blog about and StumbleUpon this article. And be sure to "+1" it if you're on the newly launched Google+ social network. In fact, if you don't want to read the rest of this article, at least stay on the page for a few minutes before clicking elsewhere. That way, it will appear to the site analytics as if you've read the whole thing.
Once, there was something called a point of view. And, after much strife and conflict, it eventually became a commonly held idea in some parts of the world that people were entitled to their own points of view.
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Unfortunately, this idea is becoming an anachronism. When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
But there was one other element of human nature that the Internet still needed to conquer: the need to belong. The "like" button began on the website FriendFeed in 2007, appeared on Facebook in 2009, began spreading everywhere from YouTube to Amazon to most major news sites last year, and has now been officially embraced by Google as the agreeable, supportive and more status-conscious "+1." As a result, we can now search not just for information, merchandise and kitten videos on the Internet, but for approval.
Masterfile You 'like' me! Even rock stars agonize over their Facebook and Twitter stats.



Just as stand-up comedians are trained to be funny by observing which of their lines and expressions are greeted with laughter, so too are our thoughts online molded to conform to popular opinion by these buttons. A status update that is met with no likes (or a clever tweet that isn't retweeted) becomes the equivalent of a joke met with silence. It must be rethought and rewritten. And so we don't show our true selves online, but a mask designed to conform to the opinions of those around us.
Conversely, when we're looking at someone else's content—whether a video or a news story—we are able to see first how many people liked it and, often, whether our friends liked it. And so we are encouraged not to form our own opinion but to look to others for cues on how to feel.
"Like" culture is antithetical to the concept of self-esteem, which a healthy individual should be developing from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Instead, we are shaped by our stats, which include not just "likes" but the number of comments generated in response to what we write and the number of friends or followers we have. I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook "likes" and Twitter followers than they do.
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, "likes" and view counts, social media have become the métier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art—or even into their own Web ventures.
The same is true of the productivity of already established writers and artists. I was recently on a radio show with an author who, the interviewer said, had tweeted, on average, every 20 minutes for the past two years. Yet, despite all the time and effort spent amassing and catering to followers, as soon as a social network falls out of use, like MySpace, all that work collapses like a castle built of sand.
The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm presciently wrote over 60 years ago that man has "constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built…. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself."
So let's rise up against the tyranny of the "like" button. Share what makes you different from everyone else, not what makes you exactly the same. Write about what's important to you, not what you think everyone else wants to hear. Form your own opinions of something you're reading, rather than looking at the feedback for cues about what to think. And, unless you truly believe that microblogging is your art form, don't waste your time in pursuit of a quick fix of self-esteem and start focusing on your true passions.
And please, despite what I said earlier, do not +1, tweet, StumbleUpon, like or comment on this article. You'll only be making it worse.
—Mr. Strauss is the author of seven best-selling books. His latest book is "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness."

Mobile users can thank me.

FatherLen

wait. there are whores that only want to be thanked??? WHERE?!?

Nodin

Damokc wrote: »

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415940086842866.html?mod=WSJASIA_newsreel_lifeStyle#articleTabs%3Darticle

Yep, everything I post is designed not to piss anyone off. Wee mousey me.

Orando Broom

These types are articles really only apply to unpopular people.

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g09GzbctlA

Needler

+1

RichieC

When i like things it posts to my facebook feed so my friends might read it. big whoop.

when i post a picture i made and it gets loads of thanks it means my idea might actually have been okay. big whoop.

same with youtube, my likes post to my feed. big whoop..

mikom

NEIL STRAUSS
LOL.

There's a growing cultural obsession with being blogged, digged, tweeted and liked.

Well there is also a growing obsession with losers trying to pick up women using a set of rules and mind fucks.
What a flute.

Emiko

Introduce an option where a user can switch off 'Thanks' (including their own).

Those who claim to hate them can do without, and those who like them can continue basking in the glory of the approval of their internet peers.

RiseToMe

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I never thank a whore.

And rarely pay them.

Who Are you? Strauss Kahn?

The King of Moo

I think this article is great.

I also think it's crap.

I think that's me covered for avoiding ridicule, for this post at least.

Logical Fallacy

RiseToMe wrote: »

Who Are you? Strauss Kahn?

Yes, and it's pronounced Strauss KAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNN!

CardBordWindow

Thanks

Gandalph

I would thank everyone in this thread if I could be arsed

TouchingVirus

RichieC wrote: »

When i like things it posts to my facebook feed so my friends might read it. big whoop.

when i post a picture i made and it gets loads of thanks it means my idea might actually have been okay. big whoop.

same with youtube, my likes post to my feed. big whoop..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwwxWdm4k0

OutlawPete

I think what that guy is referring to is more backslapping than 'thanks whoring'. If someone is creating something themselves or expressing their own opinions, then being thanked is incidental. It's the sheep like opinions being expressed purely as the person knows there is a ferocious appetite for them (and bound to be met with inevitable back slaps) that gets my goat.

A fine goat it is too.

Kevin Duffy

I like that, thanks.

Oranage2

will have sex with men or women for thanks

Kevin Duffy

Oranage2 wrote: »

will have sex with men or women for thanks

I'd roide ye, but you wouldn't thank me for it!

Micky Dolenz

Is this the "post in this thread to get a thanks" thread?

Sweet. I do love thanks.

starbelgrade

The only people who ever complain about thanks whoring are those people who are really shit at it.

I'd imagine that the writer of the article is one of those people.

Needler

Oranage2 wrote: »

will have sex with men or women for thanks

will have sex with women for thanks.
after having sex with me they must go home and thank all my posts

SadieSue

I like Tom Hanks, didn't know he was that popular though.

BOHtox

LOOK AT ME MOMMY I'M PRETTY

Kojak

Needler wrote: »

will have sex with women for thanks.
after having sex with me they must go home and thank all my posts

Your's is the first post in this thread not to be thanked as of 01:55 a.m.

Does that make you feel upset or are you going to thank all those who didn't thank you?

Needler

Kojak wrote: »

Your's is the first post in this thread not to be thanked as of 01:55 a.m.

Does that make you feel upset or are you going to thank all those who didn't thank you?

I'm sure some girl will take me up on my offer and the above post will have to be included

ldxo15wus6fpgm

RichieC wrote: »

when i post a picture i made and it gets loads of thanks it means my idea might actually have been okay. big whoop.

This is what the author is getting at... it's only ok because everyone else likes it?

Nulty

I don't really see how he thinks that the internet and "Likes" have suddenly made this phenomenon appear out of thin air....its been happening since forever, its just more noticeable now. Like crime, we hear about it more but it doesn't mean its happening relatively more than it did.

irishescorts

Ahahaha, we all read that in IEHQ and it's sparked some major debate, very good.

JimiWonderDoor 92

Thanks but no thanks