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A short follow-up for anyone who listened to the overtime of this episode of Hidden Forces on Twitter's tendency towards being a self-defeating swamp at times... 1/n https://twitter.com/kofinas/status/1348643547600343048
I've been incredibly fortunate to have a lot of conversations with really smart people on my travels over the last decade.
When I chat with people who've watched these conversations, the #1 question I'm asked by far is always "What are the people you speak to saying now?"
When I chat with people who've watched these conversations, the #1 question I'm asked by far is always "What are the people you speak to saying now?"
This morning, having noticed that I was hearing a very similar refrain from many of these people and, in a moment of weakness, I guess, I thought I'd answer that #1 question without being asked it this time as it felt like an observation people might be interested in.
Here's the tweet I sent:
https://twitter.com/ttmygh/status/1348993606292561920?s=20
Take a look at it and then look through some of the replies. It's utterly fascinating to me and reinforces the point I made to @kofinas and @EpsilonTheory during our conversation this past week...
https://twitter.com/ttmygh/status/1348993606292561920?s=20
Take a look at it and then look through some of the replies. It's utterly fascinating to me and reinforces the point I made to @kofinas and @EpsilonTheory during our conversation this past week...
I made no suggestions, no recommendations of action, no solicitation to buy or sell anything, no comment on whether the people in question were right or wrong or whether people who agreed (or disagreed) with their views should do so or not...
I simply passed on what I thought was useful information - the kind of information that I am asked about more often than anything else.
As you'll see, if you look though the replies the response (in quite a few places) was...actually, I'll let you pick your own adjective here...
As you'll see, if you look though the replies the response (in quite a few places) was...actually, I'll let you pick your own adjective here...
This, to me, is Twitter's (and in fact social media in general's) Achilles Heel and the more polarized we become, the less likely some of us are to volunteer what we think might be useful information.
What's the point? Who needs the aggravation?
What's the point? Who needs the aggravation?
...and no, I'm not being 'precious', I don't care. I never block anyone (why give them the oxygen of engagement?), I just mute trolls and carry on, but at some point, I fear Twitter will end up either eating itself...
...or splitting into a series of private silos of respectful discourse about certain areas of interest...
That would be good and bad but most of all, a waste of a great opportunity.
Ok, let's see how long before I have to mute this entire conversation ;)
That would be good and bad but most of all, a waste of a great opportunity.
Ok, let's see how long before I have to mute this entire conversation ;)
