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I think Twitter's problem is that it somehow makes people turn into vile hate filled people. There is so much harassment on Twitter I just can't believe it. Sur
by post_break 12y ago
I think Twitter's problem is that it somehow makes people turn into vile hate filled people. There is so much harassment on Twitter I just can't believe it. Sure it exists on 4chan, reddit, and others, but I think Twitter seems to channel it the most.
- theorique 12y agoMaybe that's true if you follow mostly troll accounts and angry political ranters. But since each user curates his own view of twitter, there is an easy solution: unfollow those whose tweets you don't like.
- magicalist 12y agoTweet an opinion about gamers and label it with #gamergate and see what happens. Twitter it slowwwwly rolling out tools to help manage this analogous to the way you can manage who you follow.
- jdminhbg 12y agoWell yes, if you wade into an internet-wide flamewar, you will be flamed.
- talmand 12y agoWant to have some real fun with an internet-wide flamewar? Promise to donate a dollar to charity for every offensive tweet you receive on a popular hashtag and see what happens.
- delecti 12y agoI think that's a bad example. Tweet an opinion about gamers and don't label it with #gamergate, and most likely nothing at all will happen. There is certainly a problem with harassment with many of the more prominent users, but if you don't latch on to an incredibly volatile hashtag you're not likely to draw any of that to you.
- x3n0ph3n3 12y agoI think many of those people were vile, hate-filled people to begin with, and Twitter only gave them a platform to express that.
- alexqgb 12y agoI've been on Twitter since 2008 (@alexqgb) and I've unfollowed a lot of people since then, but I can't think of one who lost my interest because they became a raging troll. Anecdotal, I know, but I've seen exactly zero evidence to support this theory. My most common reasons for dropping feeds are fleeting interest passing, people's interests getting boring, and deeper interests diverging. But changing personalities? No. Personalities are remarkably stable things. If you're an awful person on Twitter (a) you've probably been that way from the day you started and (b) it probably isn't limited to your online life.
- post_break 12y agoI didn't describe it well. I think Twitter is like an echo chamber for SJW's and it seems to spawn digital riots, swattings, doxxing, etc. That's the problem I was trying to describe, the nefarious use of Twitter.
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- nemo 12y agoIf you use the term "SJW" you really might want to look in a mirror before accusing others of being "vile hate filled people."