I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators

Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by drspacemonkey on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:17PM (#13330403)

>it's not always easy to try and take an objective look at heated messages when you, yourself, have an emotional attachment to the subject

You're making a lot of assumptions, and none of them are true. I have no emotional attachment to fan drawings of cartoons I've never seen, or the shirt Kanye was wearing at a gas station, or what some politician I've never heard of in a country I've never been to said about home mail delivery or something equally trivial. Nor do I ever post on Twitter. I don't even have an account. But my eye twitches whenever "somebody said a thing on Twitter" somehow becomes news, or a trending topic, or a witch-hunt, or a cause, or a boycott.

Twitter is a wasteland of hashtags and horseshit, devoid of anything resembling meaningful human interaction.

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Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by randomdata on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:50PM (#13331745)

> You're making a lot of assumptions, and none of them are true.

Assumptions about what? My experience is what it is. It's interesting that you are able to make the assumption that the description of my experience can be untrue. On what basis is that done?

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Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by drspacemonkey on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:54PM (#13332233)

My dislike of the level of discourse on Twitter has nothing to do with my "emotional attachment to the subject". It's a total shitshow regardless of whether or not I care or even know anything about the subject.

That's where your assumptions are wrong.

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Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by randomdata on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:36AM (#13337052)

I have made no assumptions about your situation?

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