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On 11/07/2019 08:58, Tom via list wrote:
The emergence of social media platforms over the last decade or so, remind me of AOL joining the Internet in 1993, prior to that newsgroup threads (NNTP) were filled with courteous academic discussions, it's been downhill all the way since then.On 11/07/2019 08:40, Andy Wills wrote:Judging from the threads I've seen it would appear all it does is attract people to shout into your void. I've not seen a thread that hasn't been seriously derailed before the bottom of the first page.On 11 Jul 2019 7:51 am, Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Anyone who has used twitter should realise that (like FB which I use a lot) is totally useless for anything other than shouting into the void.What a vivid phrase :-) Shouting into a void would of course be pointless because it contains literally nothing. Twitter, I think, is a means of trying to solve the opposite problem - reaching the few people in a crowded world who are interested in what you do.
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