How did Brees opinion go from being valid to invalid so quickly?

hitta · 06-04-2020, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by TheOak

I have teenage children so I have every social media platform available. Twitter is unique and its design of anonymity combined with limited keystroke makes for a virtual piranha like environment where very few people think, they just spew outrageous thoughts hoping to gain followers. I know that sounds contradictory but you can tweet 20 thoughts in a relatively short amount of time without ever thinking about what you are actually saying.

I literally had someone tell me that because what i was saying didn't agree with him, I must be Alt-right.

That's kind of the ****ed up thing with the world. We have all these different ways to express our viewpoints and stuff. We use those platforms to spew our ideas and attack others. I don't get why we can't use those platforms to actually have an open dialogue. I think twitter is garbage for that so I tend to stay away from twitter. People can't have intelligent conversations in a certain amount of characters, so twitter in itself, is kind of a platform made for ****-talking. As a society though, with all these different forms of social media though, I don't get why it is so difficult for us to actually discuss things. Instead of pulverizing Brees through social media, wouldn't it have been more beneficial to have a Q&A with him of sorts to actually understand his viewpoint. If people would have been willing to pay attention to this, I think it would have disarmed a lot of people's gripes with what he said. We have an attack first, ask questions later mentality in society and it's going to lead us no where.

06-04-2020, 06:27 PM	#12
hitta 1000 Posts + Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,339	Re: How did Brees opinion go from being valid to invalid so quickly? Originally Posted by TheOak I have teenage children so I have every social media platform available. Twitter is unique and its design of anonymity combined with limited keystroke makes for a virtual piranha like environment where very few people think, they just spew outrageous thoughts hoping to gain followers. I know that sounds contradictory but you can tweet 20 thoughts in a relatively short amount of time without ever thinking about what you are actually saying. I literally had someone tell me that because what i was saying didn't agree with him, I must be Alt-right. That's kind of the **ed up thing with the world. We have all these different ways to express our viewpoints and stuff. We use those platforms to spew our ideas and attack others. I don't get why we can't use those platforms to actually have an open dialogue. I think twitter is garbage for that so I tend to stay away from twitter. People can't have intelligent conversations in a certain amount of characters, so twitter in itself, is kind of a platform made for **-talking. As a society though, with all these different forms of social media though, I don't get why it is so difficult for us to actually discuss things. Instead of pulverizing Brees through social media, wouldn't it have been more beneficial to have a Q&A with him of sorts to actually understand his viewpoint. If people would have been willing to pay attention to this, I think it would have disarmed a lot of people's gripes with what he said. We have an attack first, ask questions later mentality in society and it's going to lead us no where. Garry42 likes this.
hitta 1000 Posts + Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,339