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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by probably_wrong on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:32AM (#10776378)
I accidentally downvoted you, sorry.

Your point about the great minds of the past is spot on. There's a reason why people buy letters from famous painters. I'm sure Van Gogh would at least have had a twitter account.

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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by orthoganol on Thursday December 24, 2015 @12:43AM (#10787263)
Don't you think emails are the digital successor to personal letter writing, not broadcasting to a bunch of followers on Twitter?

Anyways, based on artists I know - who aren't digital artists/ graphic designers, a scene where most tech companies are viewed as just an extension of greedy capitalism, I have serious doubts Van Gogh would be an active user on Twitter.

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