i haven't used twitter in a while (and even then was barely a user because it was so overwhelming), but i suspect a lot of the twitter and social media backlash

i haven't used twitter in a while (and even then was barely a user because it was so overwhelming), but i suspect a lot of the twitter and social media backlash is an impedance mismatch between our signal-seeking antennas and the tidal wave of signal (and noise) that's 300M people chatting at once. a single human isn't evolutionarily equipped to tease out useful information from that much constant and ever-present signal. we're designed to tell if an eye crinkle means the coincident stream of words are more likely true or false. we're also constantly making attribution errors via twitter in the same vein, attributing to individuals things that only apply to systems and groups (akin to the idea that there is no average person), generalizing in ways that are bound to be flawed but unable to help our collective selves. i say all this to disagree with the idea that avoiding (angry) opinion is necessarily the "right way to use twitter". it's maybe a way for an individual to avoid drowning in the deluge of signal, but it does nothing to find the truths that must be washing over us at the same time.