Twitter is a net bad thing

Odradek · 2016-09-30 14:59:27

The world would be better off without

1. Harassment campaigns

2. People thinking that a screencap of a twitter block is an epic own

3. People posting each other's avatars as an attempted own

4. Twycophants preventing real discussion or thought from happening

5. Gimmick accounts that break character

Tatterhood · 2016-09-30 15:05:05

Twitter also literally saved my life, so eh.

Odradek · 2016-09-30 15:08:14

6: The presidential campaign of Donald Trump

Odradek · 2016-09-30 15:25:52

Tatterhood said:
Twitter also literally saved my life, so eh.

Okay point

Crystal · 2016-09-30 15:37:42

I've somehow seem number 3 but it honestly sounds really amusing to me, in a simple way.

lee4hmz · 2016-09-30 15:38:27

Twitter would be a better place if they would take the initiative and ban all the damn Nazis :P

Calica · 2016-09-30 19:05:52

personally, I just wonder what the people who use spoonerisms to mock people are going to do when glenn greenwald ends up saying something bad

Tatterhood · 2016-09-30 19:10:51

Calica said:
personally, I just wonder what the people who use spoonerisms to mock people are going to do when glenn greenwald ends up saying something bad

I thought greenwald was already Problematic

I forget why though

Hexartes · 2016-09-30 19:16:22

Tatterhood said:
Twitter also literally saved my life, so eh.

Wait, what

lee4hmz · 2016-09-30 19:17:12

Tatterhood said:

Calica said:
personally, I just wonder what the people who use spoonerisms to mock people are going to do when glenn greenwald ends up saying something bad
I thought greenwald was already Problematic

I forget why though

Didn't it have something to do with Wikileaks? I don't remember much else about it myself.

Tatterhood · 2016-09-30 19:32:39

Kexruct said:

Tatterhood said:
Twitter also literally saved my life, so eh.
Wait, what

In the boring way. I was really depressed a year and a half ago, I'd just determined I was trans but didn't feel comfortable telling anyone and I felt pretty hopeless both about that and school stuff. Making a Twitter account for "girl me" helped my mental state a whole lot, especially when a few cool people actually followed me. It's kinda dumb but it was a huge part of what got me through the summer (which for various reasons turned out to be even more stressful than the semester before).

In retrospect it's kinda weird how important Twitter was to me for a year or so given how little I actually tweet these days...

Sorry if you were expecting a story about me getting trapped in a supervillain's lair but being rescued because I tweeted about it or something.

Hexartes · 2016-09-30 19:56:45

Nah, 'salright, the boring story is probably better for all involved anyway

Tre · 2016-09-30 21:06:39

fun fact: my current Twitter account is actually my second Twitter

can't remember why but I deleted my original one and replaced it, though both were registered under the same handle so it didn't make that big a difference in the grand scheme of things

Bee · 2016-09-30 21:51:46

Literally the only thing I've used Twitter for is to ping the bot for the FF5 four job fiesta.

Odradek · 2016-10-01 03:17:50

Tatterhood said:

Calica said:
personally, I just wonder what the people who use spoonerisms to mock people are going to do when glenn greenwald ends up saying something bad
I thought greenwald was already Problematic

I forget why though

Everyone is Problematic

Tatterhood said:

Kexruct said:

Tatterhood said:
Twitter also literally saved my life, so eh.
Wait, what
In the boring way. I was really depressed a year and a half ago, I'd just determined I was trans but didn't feel comfortable telling anyone and I felt pretty hopeless both about that and school stuff. Making a Twitter account for "girl me" helped my mental state a whole lot, especially when a few cool people actually followed me. It's kinda dumb but it was a huge part of what got me through the summer (which for various reasons turned out to be even more stressful than the semester before).

In retrospect it's kinda weird how important Twitter was to me for a year or so given how little I actually tweet these days...

Sorry if you were expecting a story about me getting trapped in a supervillain's lair but being rescued because I tweeted about it or something.

Well you're not Ryan North