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I had to delete Twitter from my phone - I found it would make me angry for no discernible reason, and I'm generally a pretty even-tempered person. Not healthy.
by cal5k 7y ago
I had to delete Twitter from my phone - I found it would make me angry for no discernible reason, and I'm generally a pretty even-tempered person. Not healthy.
Once you detach, you realize quickly that much of Twitter represents a tiny minority of loud, self-righteous people. When "Twitter explodes" in righteous indignation, I feel like the best move would simply be to ignore it and wait for everyone to move on.
- duxup 7y agoIt's so hard to know what "twitter explodes" even means. I imagine hundreds of thousands of users could go bonkers about something and it not matter at all. Also 1k users get upset and in the larger world that issue really matters. I have to work really hard at pruning what I follow on twitter in a constant effort to keep things "on topic" in regard to why I followed some things.
- logosmonkey 7y agoYeah, same. I actually found this with facebook as well. Since I quit both networks about a year ago I've been overall happier and have shifted that downtime to either just not using my phone or reading a book via kindle.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- the_watcher 7y agoI'm right on the edge. That said, there's some parts of Twitter I really enjoy (patio11, for example). But since a lot of his best stuff is hidden in the "Tweets and replies" section of his profile, I rarely get to see it in my feed, so I have to go through the "Search" section and see everything that's "just for me". Which seems to translate to "Just for getting me angry for no discernible reason" a lot of the time.
- Aaronstotle 7y agoI've thought about making a twitter to follow some InfoSec/Cyber-security people but I know I'd get caught up in the wider twittersphere. I always found it amusing that BBC news would report people getting upset about X on twitter when that's kind of what the whole platform is about.