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At first it\u2019s interesting. There\u2019s a stream of \u201cnew\u201d data and ideas.<\/p>\nAt first it\u2019s interesting. There\u2019s a stream of \u201cnew\u201d data and ideas.<\/p>\n
You interact because some people are funny, and if you\u2019re lonely you\u2019re reaching out to other humans, trying to connect.<\/p>\n
There are positive connections but generally they\u2019re temporary. When they go away as they inevitably do, it hurts in a way. It\u2019s not a major hurt but suddenly you\u2019re unimportant in someone else\u2019s life and you wonder if \/ what you did wrong that made them go away. What changed between this week and last week? Are they just busy, or did they find someone more interesting? With the possibility of thousands of followers all interacting or attempting to interact daily or hourly if you fall of the edge of the map it usually goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n
This has the potential to make any loneliness a person may feel, much sharper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some people will move on without paying much attention, after all, there are literally thousands of other people. Some people won\u2019t notice, and others, those with few followers may be devastated.<\/p>\n
Everyone is clamoring for attention \u201cPick Me, See Me, Talk to me\u201d, and yet the satisfaction provided is not sustaining.<\/p>\n
In my observations of the \u201cTwitterverse\u201d I\u2019ve started to understand this and noticed a few other things too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twitter has a lot of really shitty, stupid, and narcissistic people. I can only imagine what TikTok or other platforms are like.<\/p>\n
For someone like me, seeing that level of stupid or meanness is super depressing. This is especially true when the Twitter Stream is like a broken sewer pipe of shit. It wouldn\u2019t take me long based on a raw Twitter feed to decide that humanity needed to be nuked.<\/p>\n
Even if Twitter represented only a fractional part of humanity, it\u2019s pretty clear the species is doomed. Dropping nukes might be a mercy.<\/p>\n
The fact that it\u2019s monetized and you can apparently make reasonable money using Twitter, in some cases brings out the absolute worst in people.<\/p>\n
The parody accounts are sometimes funny but in other cases are even more depressing because sometimes you\u2019re transfixed by the sheer insanity. You\u2019d never normally watch some of the shit, but it\u2019s like watching an accident, you can\u2019t look away. Then you have to try to unsee what you saw and are depressed about being pulled into it in the first place.<\/p>\n
The \u201cFree Energy\u201d Twitter accounts are really depressing for someone like me. Time and time again, the “free energy\u201d person has “figured out” how to make an electric motor. \u00a0Something that\u2019s been known for 200 years or so. However, because apparently Science isn\u2019t being taught in school anymore, these people think they\u2019ve got something new.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All the free energy people succeed in demonstrating is that a rather substantial part of humanity isn\u2019t more than two steps away from seeking out an old crone to “cast the bones\u201d about next years harvest.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s really depressing!<\/p>\n
So much potential wasted, so many petty people, so much ignorance.<\/p>\n
Much of which could be addressed and improved if sites like Twitter and the internet in general weren\u2019t intellectual wastelands.<\/p>\n
How many African American fights do I need to see happen in a fast food joint? How many weaves need to be snatched off a fat chicks head before any shame is felt?<\/p>\n
Twitter and sites like it pander to the lowest common denominator. In doing so, they drag the rest of us down into the gutter.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that Twitter is not healthy, not even a little bit.<\/p>\n
I rather think that cigarette smoking is a healthier pursuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m speaking of Twitter because I long ago gave up on FaceBook and all the rest. I have a twitter account and I\u2019m considering deleting it. This is actually the second twitter account I\u2019ve had. I\u2019d forgotten why I deleted the first one. Now that I remember, do I delete this one too, or should I simply stop using it then check in only when someone sends me something from Twitter.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know Twitter is called X now, but typing \u201cX\u201d in sentences play hell with auto correct and spelling subroutines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At first it\u2019s interesting. There\u2019s a stream of \u201cnew\u201d data and ideas. You interact because some people are funny, and if you\u2019re lonely you\u2019re reaching out to other humans, trying to connect. There are positive connections but generally they\u2019re temporary. When they go away as they inevitably do, it hurts in a way. It\u2019s not … <\/p>\n