Nick FitzGerald wrote:
<snip>
> ...I realized another thing I really dislike about Twitter _and_ that I
> suspect is a major part of its attraction for a certain (rather large)
> portion of its users, and it really is about "shouting into the
> darkness". I believe that a lot of Twitter's (sub-conscious) attraction
> to a lot of its users (not all) is that it caters perfectly to the
> personality type that conspicuously and VERY LOUDLY shout into their cell
> phones in public places. _They_ are unawre of this, just as they are
> unaware that they are shouting into their cell phones. Commensurately,
> their opinions of "why Twitter is good [etc]" are largely irrelevant to
> any useful dialogue about the usefulness or not, desirability or not,
> etc, etc of Twitter.
Cool, except that most people I met who are also on twitter did not act
as you describe. Nice theory though.
<snip>
> BTW -- you and others in this thread should look up the meaning of
> curmudgeon before brandishing it so freely. Just because someone (older
> than you) says "that's not a good thing/idea because [something I know
> from the past]" does not make them a curmudgeon. If that were true there
> would be no value whatsoever in anyone ever learning or remembering
> anything. The US has just had eight years of an administration led by a
> group who seem to believe that, and I think most of us learnt something
> valuable from that... 8-)
>
We did not use the word curmudgeon, you guys did.
We did not attack anyone based on their age, you guys did.
:)
Gadi.
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