It looks like an Ad for Instapaper and Pinboard. What does anti-social web have to do with these web services? If I'm an anti-social, wouldn't I be keeping my web things to myself, as in, locally?
This must be one of the most vapid pieces I've ever read via HN. It just doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and there is absolutely no connection between the title and the text.<p>This is just one step away from one of those fake articles generated by bots for content farming purposes. Oh wait, did I get it?
What a tortured article in service of a catchy headline. There's nothing <i>anti</i>-social about wanting to spend time reading or taking time away from an always-connected experience.
i like this movement, despite the other posts here. perhaps "less-social" would be a better term, or "slower"?<p><i>slow-social</i>?<p>something like slow food?<p>the problem is that per-click and per-view economics tend to drive users towards shorter operations. i suspect game mechanics do too. and this connects to something that has been worrying me for a long time - that there are "deep" social mechanisms, which we don't understand well enough to use in a wise, balanced way, that are being exploited for financial gain. to some extent that's always been an issue - i wouldn't be surprised to learn that advertising has been leading sociology / psychology for years - but it seems to be getting worse as the medium (the web v magazines, for example) becomes more immediate.