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ONLY on Twitter. Twitter is unique in that you will find people on there who are angry and lash out in a move completely uncharacteristic of the usual civility of the internet.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
The character limit has been scientifically tested to be the one most prone to outrage.lacktheknack said:
Really? Jeez, I won't even put on my pants to please an army of faceless users.Windknight said:
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I'm a firm believer in the #NotOnTwitter movement. I haven't been on twitter since I started using the internet... in 1993-ish.Zachary Amaranth said:
Total abstinence and ignorance is a lovely thing.
Oh yeah well I don't have a cell phone so my anachronism level is higher than yours.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
Exactly. I think the subtext is statement enough. Honestly though, I just never bothered to use it. I don't hate it nor do I like it, I'm more indifferent than anything.Zachary Amaranth said:
I'm not in a luddite competition, just enjoying not wasting time on being a twit.Eric the Orange said:
I just don't think I'd use it even if I signed up. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, something made harder by a character limit. Even that, I'm amazed how much more people use it than I do.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
Strange, you basically sound like me when it comes to social media. I am really amazed at the mileage people get out of both FB and Twitter.Zachary Amaranth said:
Twitter is more or less the perfect storm of the worst of human communication.
It is anonymous (unless you post as yourself for PR reasons), thus not only giving people an extra layer of security when they want to say something dumb, it also masks their circumstances from others (the guy you see as a horrible transmisogynistic nazi communist gay shitlord kitty-diddler might actually be a ten year old kid with tourette's that just wants to be edgy or a drunk sixty years old grandma shaking her cane at kids these days, and you will probably never know).
The character limit also makes people boil down their ideas to sound-bytes that are oftentimes more about being snappy and impactful than an actual accurate representation of their points, which they later have to defend (since it's part of human nature to not want to appear inconsistent, a verified thing that has been exploited by salespeople for ages), which in turn makes them embrace the footnotes version of their own views, thus inadvertently making people radicalize their own arguments over time.
Finally the following and up-voting system encourages mob-mentality, where a some bad apples (or even just a few with compromised decision-making skills due to stress/alcohol/drugs/etc.) can tug an entire swath of people towards a reactionary crusade against the dumbest of things, and once people get into one of these mobs they cannot really exit without once again appearing inconsistent and causing mental strain.
In the end the horror of twitter boils down to a simple fact that we are not evolved, either biologically or culturally, to deal with the internet suddenly opening our windows to the whole world, and I would say it would take a few more generations before we figure out how to deal with this... by which time there would be some new fad (VR communications? brain-to-brain interfaces? chewing on skunks?) that will replace it and we have to start all over again...
It is anonymous (unless you post as yourself for PR reasons), thus not only giving people an extra layer of security when they want to say something dumb, it also masks their circumstances from others (the guy you see as a horrible transmisogynistic nazi communist gay shitlord kitty-diddler might actually be a ten year old kid with tourette's that just wants to be edgy or a drunk sixty years old grandma shaking her cane at kids these days, and you will probably never know).
The character limit also makes people boil down their ideas to sound-bytes that are oftentimes more about being snappy and impactful than an actual accurate representation of their points, which they later have to defend (since it's part of human nature to not want to appear inconsistent, a verified thing that has been exploited by salespeople for ages), which in turn makes them embrace the footnotes version of their own views, thus inadvertently making people radicalize their own arguments over time.
Finally the following and up-voting system encourages mob-mentality, where a some bad apples (or even just a few with compromised decision-making skills due to stress/alcohol/drugs/etc.) can tug an entire swath of people towards a reactionary crusade against the dumbest of things, and once people get into one of these mobs they cannot really exit without once again appearing inconsistent and causing mental strain.
In the end the horror of twitter boils down to a simple fact that we are not evolved, either biologically or culturally, to deal with the internet suddenly opening our windows to the whole world, and I would say it would take a few more generations before we figure out how to deal with this... by which time there would be some new fad (VR communications? brain-to-brain interfaces? chewing on skunks?) that will replace it and we have to start all over again...
Considering that the low character limit allows for easy and (un)intentional misinterpretation of posts while preventing your from explaining anything properly without writing 20 posts, combined with mob mentality... Yup, you're right.lacktheknack said:
I too would like to add my voice of concern to their angry cries about the subject to which we are all well informed about. Yes.
The question is... is she a dirty hoe kind of girl? Or does she keep her tools of the trade clean?
