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Honestly, this seems like the most entitled thing ever. You want to use someone else's stuff for free but you get annoyed that they want you to have an account.
by that_guy_iain 5y ago
Honestly, this seems like the most entitled thing ever. You want to use someone else's stuff for free but you get annoyed that they want you to have an account.
- specialist 5y agoTwitter sells eyeballs. Do they pay me to visit their site? To tweet? Is Twitter entitled to my attention? In only narrowly proscribed ways that maximize their own benefit? Quid pro quo.
- mattdeboard 5y ago> Is Twitter entitled to my attention? If you're using Twitter, yes, because you are explicitly entitling them to it > In only narrowly proscribed [sic] ways that maximize their own benefit? Yes
- that_guy_iain 5y ago> Twitter sells eyeballs. Do they pay me to visit their site? To tweet? No, they provide you with a service free of charge with the open knowledge that they pay for it by selling your attention. This is Quid pro quo.
- infinitezest 5y agoTo be honest, once a company reaches the level of notoriety and dominance that Twitter has, "just don't use it" starts to sound like a pretty disingenuous argument. You can practically see the troll face appended to it.