That kind of thing can happen and no matter what venue you use if you
are in a sensitive position you had better give some thought to what you
say or you might get yourself in trouble. Donald Trump should learn
that lesson. As for myself, there are two kinds of tweets that come out
of my Twitter account. A long time ago I clicked the button on my
Goodreads settings that allow my Goodreads updates to post to both
Twitter and Facebook. I tend to forget about those unless I just happen
to see one on my own timeline. All the other tweets are of a political
nature and given the profiles of my followers I think that most of them
are following me especially for my political tweets. One time and one
time only I got an insulting reply to one of my political tweets. I just
skipped over it and forgot about it. The only reason I remembered it
just now was because of the personal sniping you mentioned. As for the
personal sniping wars of other people on Twitter, I haven't seen it. I
expect that is because I don't have much interest in following the types
who would engage in it. And that illustrates another of my points.
Whether it is Twitter or Facebook or just about anything else on the
Internet, you have to decide what you want to come your way and filter
out the rest. There is a whole lot of utter nonsense out there, but
anyone who wants to avoid it can. Of course there is the occasional spam
or is-this-a-coyote-or-a-dog post, but there are still ways to minimize
them. And if you like stuff like that then there are ways to maximize
them too.
On 11/7/2017 9:35 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
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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*Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: What would you do with something
like this?
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 would become involved in a story like that when really
important and horrible things are happening to people all over the
world, many of them caused by the government of the country where
I live, is one reason.
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> Miriam
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> Subject: [blind-democracy] What would you do with something like
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> There is a guy on Facebook who says that his wife brought home a
puppy that she found. She said that it had been abandoned and that
she found it in the weeds on the side of the road. They decided to
adopt it and went through the whole procedure of getting its
vaccinations and dog tags and so forth. But he says that the older
it gets the more he is thinking that it doesn't act quite right
and it doesn't look quite right. He is getting more and more
suspicious that his wife brought home a coyote. I wish I could see
the picture. Several people have commented and a couple say that
it looks a lot like pictures of coyotes that they have seen.
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