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You act like you have a bug up your butt about Twitter and want to make a demon out of it. Twitter is just a medium. Use Twitter if it fits your needs. Use some

by mkr-hn 13y ago

You act like you have a bug up your butt about Twitter and want to make a demon out of it. Twitter is just a medium. Use Twitter if it fits your needs. Use something else if not. Nothing is imposed on you.

PavlovsCat 13y ago
I asked you a simple question. You sound like you can't answer a straighforward question and then make a demon out of me. Oh well. In the meantime, I started to watch a talk by Chris Hedges about Journalism, and when I heard this bit I had to think of this thread right here: .. it's why I don't go on Fox news. I don't go on CNN either, because the most you're ever gonna get is 4 to 6 minutes. And so you have to use the language of easily identifiable clichés in order for the audience to resonate. And if what you're thinking doesn't fit within those clichés, then you become unintelligible. And that of course has now been carried out through the wider culture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhq-l0LUio&t=4m44s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhq-l0LUio&t=4m44s Twitter is not "just a medium" like those just fall out of the sky in random configurations, it's part of a trend, and THAT I utterly hate, and proudly so. I don't have it in for Twitter as such, rather for the general decline in the ability to think (or answer simple questions). Also, while I'm not forced to use it, if everybody does, there is nobody left to have any meaningful conversations with, so that would kind of suck. To put bluntly: the freedom of people to be stupid, taken to extremes by too many people, kind of intrudes on my freedom to be intelligent. So the very least I can do is ask a simple question. If you can't even stand being asked a question without skipping to ad-hominem plus strawman, I would say the proof is in the pudding.
- mkr-hn 13y ago
  I talk about interesting things with intelligent people who often share very intelligent--and long, deep--writing using Twitter. It's unfortunate that you feel Twitter is a representation for what you perceive as a decline in thinking, but you're not blaming the real cause. I don't know what the cause is since I don't see a decline in thinking.
  - pwang 13y ago
    How do they share long and deep writing with Twitter? Do they smear it out over a dozen tweets that you then have to navigate with the terribly conversation view interface?
    - mkr-hn 13y ago
      They tweet links to their blogs or the publications they write for.

by mkr-hn 13y ago

PavlovsCat 13y ago

I asked you a simple question. You sound like you can't answer a straighforward question and then make a demon out of me. Oh well. In the meantime, I started to watch a talk by Chris Hedges about Journalism, and when I heard this bit I had to think of this thread right here: .. it's why I don't go on Fox news. I don't go on CNN either, because the most you're ever gonna get is 4 to 6 minutes. And so you have to use the language of easily identifiable clichés in order for the audience to resonate. And if what you're thinking doesn't fit within those clichés, then you become unintelligible. And that of course has now been carried out through the wider culture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhq-l0LUio&t=4m44s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhq-l0LUio&t=4m44s Twitter is not "just a medium" like those just fall out of the sky in random configurations, it's part of a trend, and THAT I utterly hate, and proudly so. I don't have it in for Twitter as such, rather for the general decline in the ability to think (or answer simple questions). Also, while I'm not forced to use it, if everybody does, there is nobody left to have any meaningful conversations with, so that would kind of suck. To put bluntly: the freedom of people to be stupid, taken to extremes by too many people, kind of intrudes on my freedom to be intelligent. So the very least I can do is ask a simple question. If you can't even stand being asked a question without skipping to ad-hominem plus strawman, I would say the proof is in the pudding.

mkr-hn 13y ago
I talk about interesting things with intelligent people who often share very intelligent--and long, deep--writing using Twitter. It's unfortunate that you feel Twitter is a representation for what you perceive as a decline in thinking, but you're not blaming the real cause. I don't know what the cause is since I don't see a decline in thinking.
- pwang 13y ago
  How do they share long and deep writing with Twitter? Do they smear it out over a dozen tweets that you then have to navigate with the terribly conversation view interface?
  - mkr-hn 13y ago
    They tweet links to their blogs or the publications they write for.