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comment by demure
demure  ·  3748 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do *you* use Hubski?

Sure, I can try to elaborate.

Lemme give some background. I'm not out of high school yet -- and thus suffer from a lack of certain life experiences and am at an age where I feel a little out of place on Hubski -- not a fault of Hubski itself or of its users, not at all. In my efforts to take a break from my studies, I turn to reddit and youtube for mindless entertainment, time which I used when I was little to read (a voracious reader, I was). I've brought that back up to steam during the summertime, but there's always the pull back to that community because it doesn't take effort. Again - not a fault of Hubski itself. That's on me.

So when I go to Hubski during the school year, then, the level of interaction doesn't really jive in my brain with what I feel like that time should be used for. I almost see it as an extension of the kinds of activities my schoolwork requires, see, because of the level of engagement required. And because Hubski (in my mind) thrives on interaction between users -- no, scratch that -- between people, I feel bad being the proverbial man in the corner of the bar, watching everyone do their thing and sipping a club soda, wondering what I'm even doing there (or how I got in, haha).

I dunno. Maybe it's just that I've got to power through with some of my own willpower, because I can tell that it's no wrongdoing of Hubski or Hubski's methods/ideology.

We'll see. We'll see.