06-04-2020, 06:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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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.
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