Ephemeral nature of social media
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We have a thread about how social media is dead and can effect no real change.
We have a thread about Taylor Swift using social media to change Apple's policy and negotiate a better deal for indie artists.
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Which was the critical bit of the change? Swift or Twitter?
She's the sort of person who could have used another outlet. That said, the platform let her speak to people directly instead of going through a reporter or something.
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I mean, that's fair, but clearly Twitter played a role.
Basically, TR
is assuming Social Media is or needs to be anything different than "people talking, but digital". People talking can make change happen, especially if it's the right people in the right way.
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I suppose I should have gone with my original intent and left it as just sinister but i wanted to be clever and .....
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And here's a case in point: No likes, four trolls. One troll trolling one of the other trolls.
Maybe you don't like social media because you only distinguish between "likes" and "trolls". That distinction doesn't leave much room for discussing differences of opinion.
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Back in the mists of time, when Usenet was just beginning to be a thing, I was astonished to discover this wondrous oracle that you could just ask any
technicalquestion (except about woodchucks), wait a few days, and somebody would have ausefulsilly, useless and (if you were really lucky) humorous answer for you.
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Also, if social media is dead, why did you take the time to write all this stuff and post it here, expecting likes no doubt?
Because we're actually anti-social media here.
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Assuming you didn't get hit with the ZOT staff.
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Assuming you didn't get hit with the ZOT staff.
That's why you didn't ask about woodchucks, of course.
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There were other reasons for Zadoc and co to smite with the ZOT staff beyond the w**dch*ck question. Inappropriate suggestions about Lisa tended to get a smiting as well as insufficient grovelling and supplication, if memory serves. Been at least a decade since I read any of the archives.
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She's the sort of person who could have used another outlet. That said, the platform let her speak to people directly instead of going through a reporter or something
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Inappropriate suggestions about Lisa
I'd forgotten about Lisa.
insufficient grovelling
Doesn't seem to be ZOT-worthy these days; less than 1/10 recent digested questions/answers have any grovel at all. (You did know it's still going, right? Although the amount of participation only produces enough good questions/answers for about one digest a month.)
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I figured it'd still be going but like I said, haven't caught up with it in forever. Saddened to hear that there is a lack of grovelling, because that was always a fun part of it, seeing what would happen with insufficient grovelling.
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By the way, could we please stop with dividing posts into "normal" and "troll"?
Damn straight! Sometimes I make hybrid posts, and I want those posts recognized as normal and troll!
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But the media portrayal boils down to, "Every terrorist shouts, 'Allahu Akbar!' before pushing the button." Which is obviously untrue
Yes, your statement of the media portrayal is untrue. MSM does not portray all terrorists as shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
Congratulations on correcting yourself before you got out of hand.
But then the statement above, of course, leads us to the corollary, "All people who shout, 'Allahu Akbar!' are terrorists." And that gets derived in turn as, "All Muslims are terrorists." …
Nevermind.
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Wait, I thought "trolling" was "normal" around here?
Just say what you mean, man!
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Wait, I thought "trolling" was "normal" around here?
Just say what you mean, man!
Saying what you mean
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Someone disagrees:
EphemeralMandatory nature of social mediaOriginal on twitter:
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I don't use Facebook, and I seem to be doing ok.
But I guess I'm one of those poor suckers who doesn't understand that Facebook makes itself mandatory.
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I suspect they're referring to network effects, but yeah -- I seem to get along fine without BaceFook as well ;)
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Someone disagrees:
Meh. She's not highly thought of over here. Especially after this crass attempt at "me me me me!! look at me!":
Her grandmother got no such thing.
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Facebook and Twitter queen Taylor Swift: Facebook and Twitter are RUBBISH
