| > Is making your co-workers your friend group a new thing? Is it a side effect of working so many hours you don't have time to hang out with anyone else? Well, at Google we have things like Memegen where people post memes, and those memes have comments, so I guess you can see where that goes. Why do people post memes? I guess for the same reason I'm on HN at work; they're bored. > I go to work to pull a paycheck and because I enjoy the work that I do, I do not go to work to make friends or to hang out with people. I only go to work for the former and having friends at work just makes work more tolerable for me. I can eat lunch with them, get coffee with them, play ping pong with them, take classes at the gym with them, or just have a walk outside when I'm taking a break. It feels lonely otherwise. Also, many of us have moved far from home for work, so we had no friends, and it's much easier to make friends when you have common ground. Plus, as you say we spend so much time at work that in a way there are more opportunities to make friends there. |
Yeah, but posting on HN doesn't advertise to my entire company that I'm dickin around instead of doing work.