The Dumpster Fire of Humanity
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Not surprising. However, twitter randos gotta tweet, thinking that their opinion matters.
What gets me is when twitter non-randos, politicians and "journalists" do it. Supposedly they're our betters (see "New Civility" thread), or at least that's what they tell us.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.
I was only joking
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Not surprising. However, twitter randos gotta tweet, thinking that their opinion matters.
What gets me is when twitter non-randos, politicians and "journalists" do it. Supposedly they're our betters (see "New Civility" thread), or at least that's what they tell us.
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Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.
@doctor-phibes said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:
Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.
I think the demand for narcissists and trolls might exceed the supply, if Twitter requires one or both. Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.
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@doctor-phibes said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:
Twitter is pretty much tailor made to appeal to narcissists and trolls. It shouldn't be any surprise when so many of the people who use it are narcissists and trolls.
I think the demand for narcissists and trolls might exceed the supply, if Twitter requires one or both. Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.
@horace said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:
Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.
I don't see the value of it, to be honest. I've looked at some feeds, and it appears to be mostly people re-tweeting something somebody else said about something I don't care about. If anybody says anything remotely controversial, there are generally howls of outrage from a bunch of knobheads of one form or another.
What's the point of it?
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@horace said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:
Maybe Twitter users are de facto normal people.
I don't see the value of it, to be honest. I've looked at some feeds, and it appears to be mostly people re-tweeting something somebody else said about something I don't care about. If anybody says anything remotely controversial, there are generally howls of outrage from a bunch of knobheads of one form or another.
What's the point of it?
@doctor-phibes said in The Dumpster Fire of Humanity:
If anybody says anything remotely controversial, there are generally howls of outrage from a bunch of knobheads of one form or another.
What's the point of it?[Nodding.] There's a Mah-Jong game I play online . . . it's a time passer. I'm happier fiddling around on that and thinking my own thoughts than I am trapping myself in the horror hell of social media.
That to me may represent the biggest disadvantage of the Internet: The grasping toward, the pursuit of, ever more stuff to know -- a greed that, like the appetite for cocaine, grows and grows and is never satisfied. A greed that is deleterious for the human mind and soul and ultimately, body; a greed humans were never meant for.
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