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Exactly. Shotgun-blast your puerile thoughts to your dozens/hundreds/millions of followers. Don't bother reading any responses it might garner—they're going to
by Eiriksmal 12y ago
Exactly. Shotgun-blast your puerile thoughts to your dozens/hundreds/millions of followers. Don't bother reading any responses it might garner—they're going to be just as base.
Now you're in the habit of just shotgunning statements into the crowd, so when you do the same thing on Facebook, you've forgotten how to engage in a more lengthy, rational discussion.
Or, even worse, you've grown up with Twitter and don't understand that people can have lengthy, meaningful conversations via the internet.
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- Justsignedup 12y agoBasically because of this Twitter has been a place to share "interesting" links, pictures, jokes, and complaints. There's no discussion, no thought, no ability to back-n-forth. Worse is everything is very public so I have to be super duper careful that what I say doesn't get back to me professionally. There is no "private community" or anything. I find twitter useless except as a means to scream really loud not caring if anyone hears it.
- eropple 12y agoYMMV, but I have fairly long and extended conversations on Twitter all the time. They're almost invariably not with tech people, though.
- Karunamon 12y agoI'm pretty sure you'd be hard pressed to find any actual effect on conversational skills from the existence of a fucking short messaging site!
- cicero 12y agoThere is no shortage of intelligent, rational material on Twitter. It's all about who you follow. I choose to not follow anyone who posts junk. It is true that I can't do anything about foul responses except just ignore them.