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Guest *Mara* @ 2018-12-28 14:51:01 originally posted:

Great post, Yihui (and not just because you said lovely things about me).

I couldn't agree with you more about the downsides of social media. I definitely wouldn't be able to do what I do these days for R (and, for many years beforehand, for my ridiculous dog) if I had to go on Twitter every time I wanted to share something. (I use an application called Buffer, which I sort of use as a reading list, too, since I don't like to tweet things I haven't read).

You're not the first to mention ICYMI (credit to Jim Hester there). but I hadn't really thought of it as a matter of FOMO — which definitely makes me want to pause and reconsider. In my mind, I use it as a sort of admission of "guilt," that I'm tweeting something I shared before — also as a means for me to distinguish what I'm thinking of sharing again versus new content. There are definitely other ways to do that, though, so I'm going to try and figure something else out.

I admire your commitment to blogging (and the volume at which you are able to do it). Writing is hard! I used to write a few long-form book reviews a week on Goodreads. I got positive feedback, enjoyed doing it, and kept upping the bar for myself until it became totally paralyzing, leaving me with half-written reviews I never deemed ready for the world.

Though I hope to write more (in longer increments than 280 characters) in 2019, I can't imagine turning off the spigot of enthusiasm for other peoples' material — especially some of the great resources that exist, but aren't "new" and, thus, are missed by feed aggregators etc.

Lastly, I cannot overstate what an enormous impact your work has had on the whole R-loving blogosphere (and beyond). Some of the best posts I read are simple tricks that someone discovered (for themselves), and captured with blogdown because it's so easy to do.

🙏

Guest *TC Zhang* @ 2018-12-31 08:23:47 originally posted:

About your concern of "they want to train us to be buried in, and addicted by, chaos.", here are some interesting refs， people are making similar complaints a century ago: https://fx.weico.net/share/50891863.html?weibo_id=4317140851462971

Guest *username* @ 2019-01-09 21:09:46 originally posted:

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Guest *Jon Chiang* @ 2019-04-03 20:38:28 originally posted:

Would it be similar to subscribe to RSS feeds of people's blogs you care about? Then voting on content you find helpful?