To wit: Twitter

[nousd]

imo Twitter is promulgating confrontational communication by eliminating nuances from our language.
By favouring bald statements or stark opinions, there's less room for shades of meaning & more room for misapprehension.
with balance relying on many inputs to come to an implied consensus....which doesn't always happen.
Just saying, I like its requirement for brevity & conciseness
and it's a great tool for quickly disseminating news or assessing reactions
but its users are limited in expressing subtleties like doubt, reflection and consideration
so tend to become harried into fixed positions by the strongly opinionated.

A clue to the nature of the problem
is that sms, with it's similar brevity
doesn't have the same recourse to confrontation.
Is it the greater elective or available response time?
...the no need for instant reaction and defence of ego?
The opportunity for considered wit?

[titchbit]

#CancelColbert

[nowaysj]

Do you participate in Twitter?

[nousd]

vicariously yes
actually no
it would siphon off too much creative juice

[cloaked_up]

i agree its horrible

[magma]

I think the only difference with SMS is that you're sending to someone you already know and so you temper yourself to normal conversational rules; when you know your audience you tailor your message to be appropriate to your relationship. Twitter is the electronic equivalent of shouting into the breeze, it's not focused in the same way... people seem to naturally take two approaches to potentially having the world as their audience, either try to be a perfect vision of beauty, poise and charity in the eyes of the world or be as provocative as humanly possible.

You can't deny the power of the platform; it's become an amazing experiment in drawing out the best and worst of humanity's thought process.

[Sonika]

i hate the obscure twitter statuses that are very obviously directed at one specific person, yet the tweeter feels the need to let ALL their followers and the collective internet community know what they want to say to that person

[DiegoSapiens]

i cannot agree more with sd5 and magma.
Twitter and social media in general makes people think their life is like a tv show relevant not just to their friends but to their "friends" ( ) in twitter. It also makes people more morally lazy and inactive, they think that by retweeting a message protesting against the government from their sofa they think that they have done their homework and they can rest calmly that night.

Every time i have read the tweets from my m8s it was #PAIN

[DiegoSapiens]

also is funny how some adults are more addicted than teenagers. 50 years dudes doing constantly a chronic for the rest of the world of what are they eating, with who are they, where etc, to busy texting for actually enjoy what they are doing.... sad

[nowaysj]

I don't know on the end there. Some of the craziest shit I've been through, during it, I've been like, I can't wait to tell people about this shit.

I don't know, I haven't been traumatized by social media like many of you seem to have been.

[DiegoSapiens]

telling people about tshit is obv one of the coolest thing in life, the thing is how do you tell them. In a superficial place like twitter<a bar with a beer, or even a private message

[nowaysj]

Yeah, for-shore. I don't tweet. I only read tweets when something is cracking off around the globe. But I feel you, and to lsd's point, I guess twitter is not the place to mention all of the implications of the fact that you're tripping balls and walking down a street that is really a paved ancient seabed, and the air you're breathing would have been instead, salty sea water filled with enormous predatory beasts.

[DiegoSapiens]

Yeah, for-shore. I don't tweet. I only read tweets when something is cracking off around the globe. But I feel you, and to lsd's point, I guess twitter is not the place to mention all of the implications of the fact that you're tripping balls and walking down a street that is really a paved ancient seabed, and the air you're breathing would have been instead, salty sea water filled with enormous predatory beasts.

well yes, what i mean is that people give a horrible use to it, twitter by itself is a really good tool.

[Jizz]

Yeah, for-shore. I don't tweet. I only read tweets when something is cracking off around the globe. But I feel you, and to lsd's point, I guess twitter is not the place to mention all of the implications of the fact that you're tripping balls and walking down a street that is really a paved ancient seabed, and the air you're breathing would have been instead, salty sea water filled with enormous predatory beasts.

#goodtrip

[nousd]

^good example
doesn't add anything...just a comment of approval
(altho admittedly a clever element of irony)

there's a panel show on Oz tv that discusses current issues seriously
which has ongoing tweets shown
very few do anything but mindlessly cheer or vitriolically boo the opinions being expressed
not adding anything to a generally intelligent convo but giving the impression of home-audience participation
boring and annoying for me

[collige]

#CancelColbert

Jesus that whole drama was retarded

[therapist]

imo Twitter is promulgating confrontational communication by eliminating nuances from our language.
By favouring bald statements or stark opinions, there's less room for shades of meaning & more room for misapprehension.
with balance relying on many inputs to come to an implied consensus....which doesn't always happen.
Just saying, I like its requirement for brevity & conciseness
and it's a great tool for quickly disseminating news or assessing reactions
but its users are limited in expressing subtleties like doubt, reflection and consideration
so tend to become harried into fixed positions by the strongly opinionated.

A clue to the nature of the problem
is that sms, with it's similar brevity
doesn't have the same recourse to confrontation.
Is it the greater elective or available response time?
...the no need for instant reaction and defence of ego?
The opportunity for considered wit?

Belongs in the cringe thread. Fucking hell.

[nousd]

yeah
I see what you mean
tbh I knew it was
pretentious and belaboured prolixity
when I wrote it

point being
you can't do that on twatter

[nowaysj]

[OGLemon]

/~123?