Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?

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Relevent to this link is a line from PG's "Acceleration of Addictiveness" (http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html)

"We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to."

"Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?[1] Some employers and psychologists say[2] staying away from social media is 'suspicious'", asks the Daily Mail[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Weasel#Unsupported_a....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

I absolutely agree. But even with little substance, the fact that a major publication is saying things like this is relevant - it shifts thought and dialogue in less reasoned circles for the worse. I posted to highlight the absurdity, and to gain insights from the HN community so I could form a better argument against this line of thinking.

Fair enough. It might have been worth making that clear in a top-level reply when you made the submission, though -- people might get the wrong idea otherwise.

There's been a couple of other submissions of articles citing this one -- and a bit of discussion of this daft notion on each:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350529

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350221

Relevent to this link is the final line from PG's Essay "Acceleration of Addictiveness" (http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html):

"We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to."

Is founding Facebook a sign you're a sociopath?

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