I read article which include tweets every day. Public figures, journalists,
etc., are using twitter in order to comment on daily events and to snipe at
each other. There are all sorts of twitter wars going on between people
which can become very vicious, I believe, partly because of the limits of
the medium. Sometimes, people write things that sound more extreme than how
they really feel. Do you remember Steven Solaida? He was a professor of
indigenous studies at the University of Virginia and he had just been hired
at the University of Illinois. He tweeted about the Israeli attack on Gaza
in 2014 and the pro Israel people who donated money to the University of
Illinois were so horrified by his tweet, that they put pressure on the
administration to cancel his appointment. He hasn't had a steady university
job since although he won a case suing the University of Illinois. The tweet
was written quickly, off the top of his head, and sounded extreme. I don't
know for sure but had he written a carefully thought out article, the
outcome might have been very different.
Miriam
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Admittedly 140 characters is frustratingly restrictive, but the trick is to
state only a headline and then provide a link to the original source. Like
Facebook there is a little bit of everything that one could follow. It
really does seem kind of silly to just refuse to use it without even
understanding what it is all about and then expressing some kind of moral
superiority at depriving oneself of the resource.
On 11/6/2017 10:41 AM, MARY CONVY wrote:
Miriam, As with anything, the thing itself is not inherently good or
evil, but the way it is used. I am on twitter subscribed to a million news
sources. I get live notice of live streams of protests, live police calls,
140 characters of news headlines that allows me to look further into an
issue or not, weather alerts, police alerts, kidnapped kid alerts. It is a
great source. I am on Facebook where there are neighborhood pages and town
pages of where I live and find out instantly, for example, of a bear coming
down my block, a woman in great need after an abusive husband left, lost
dogs, a family whose teen was killed in a car accident and needed help, a
man sitting in a car on my block taking picture of kids. The police are on
the site and post neighborhood alerts. It is a wonderful source.
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I'm certainly not on twitter. The idea of thinking that one can adequately
express an idea in 140 characters is ridiculous. It's just a way to lash out
at others or inflate one's ego, as far as I'm concerned. Facebook is a huge
money making operation and is not the way I want to communicate with
anyone!Even my kids who are 53 and 45 don't use it. And if I could manage
it, and I almost do, I'd boycott Amazon because I don't want a monopoly
doing all the selling in the world. I have ideas about right and wrong and
I've tried to live my values. But as society becomes more and more corrupt,
it becomes harder and harder to do so. I'll hold out, wherever I can.
Miriam
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Miriam, Are you on Twitter? Why no Facebook?
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It was just a personal post that was forwarded around and happened to
come my way. Maybe you wouldn't be on Facebook, but you have made plenty
of personal posts right here yourself.
On 11/5/2017 10:09 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I wouldn't be on Facebook to begin with. And the fact that people wouldbecome involved in a story like that when really important and horrible
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There is a guy on Facebook who says that his wife brought home a puppy
