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Re: [LUG] Diasporia

 

> On 11 July 2019 at 09:06 Giles Coochey <giles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2019 08:58, Tom via list wrote:
> > On 11/07/2019 08:40, Andy Wills wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > 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.
> >
> 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.
> 
I can recall when there was lots of information on ....alt 2000 was it ? or 
something like that. It was all text and before google. You searched using the 
browser. I recall reading text a how-to on Google !
Jon
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