Elon Musk

twosips said:
Twitter is absolutely what you make of it. Follow the right people and it becomes an incredibly educational and useful place. Fun and entertaining too. I've almost certainly made a living from it as well, as have loads of people I know. I often find those who dismiss it as a load of nonsense don't really use it or understand it. It's far more than most think it is.
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Fair enough. I understand it fine. I don’t see any real use for it. Apart from a marketing tool for the unhinged. If it ceased to exit today, not many would blink any eye tomorrow. Far too many people stealing a living using platforms like Facebook/Twitter to spread misinformation. The new age journalists being 1 for a start. Anyway, if it’s your thing then that your decision. No need to be condescending.

Go Musk -:)
 
mexico1970 said:
I know all I need to know about it, it's just a circle of people nodding to whatever narrative they want to believe. It's a huge echo chamber and whoever uses it and likes it believes they are using it the correct way.

If you want to run a business whilst watching a beheading or spread a rumour then dip your bread.
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That’s probably because a lot of people that use it don’t use it as an echo chamber - it has the capability to be that, as does any comms site on the internet, but that’s about the user rather than the platform itself, the exact same as it is even on this site. I’d actually argue it’s the complete opposite of an echo chamber, but it’s entirely down to how people personally want to consume content.
 
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mexico1970 said:
I know all I need to know about it, it's just a circle of people nodding to whatever narrative they want to believe. It's a huge echo chamber and whoever uses it and likes it believes they are using it the correct way.

If you want to run a business whilst watching a beheading or spread a rumour then dip your bread.
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Seem like you have a rigid view on this, have you been living in an echo chamber?
 
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twosips said:
Twitter is absolutely what you make of it. Follow the right people and it becomes an incredibly educational and useful place. Fun and entertaining too. I've almost certainly made a living from it as well, as have loads of people I know. I often find those who dismiss it as a load of nonsense don't really use it or understand it. It's far more than most think it is.
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Out of curiosity, did you get a link for that illegal football stream you asked for and then deleted?
 
meltonblue said:
That’s probably because a lot of people that use it don’t use it as an echo chamber - it has the capability to be that, as does any comms site on the internet, but that’s about the user rather than the platform itself, the exact same as it is even on this site. I’d actually argue it’s the complete opposite of an echo chamber, but it’s entirely down to how people personally want to consume content.
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It has been blamed for Brexit with Facebook it was also blamed for Trump getting elected, people can't have it both ways and say it's only good when they use it.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
It can be all of those things though.
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It can be, it can also be a sewer and an echo chamber. Most publications have called it that because in the main it's pretty true.

The problems happen when something that you get for free you start to demand gets done in a certain way, people can just log off and leave it.
 
mexico1970 said:
It can be, it can also be a sewer and an echo chamber. Most publications have called it that because in the main it's pretty true.

The problems happen when something that you get for free you start to demand gets done in a certain way, people can just log off and leave it.
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So it’s up to the individual. I quote enjoy Twitter. It doesn’t take up much of my time, but the people I follow mean I get a decent mix of comedy, news, football and other fields that I enjoy.

If Twitter asks me to pay for my account, it’ll be shut down.
 
mexico1970 said:
It has been blamed for Brexit with Facebook it was also blamed for Trump getting elected, people can't have it both ways and say it's only good when they use it.
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Are you talking about social media in general there including Facebook too? With both it’s whether you judge them in terms of their capability as a platform or the actions of particular groups that use it.

I’m not going to argue social media has had significant detrimental effects though, although I’d argue a lot of that is educational issues as much as anything else that actually drives it.

It is whatever individual users choose it to be, that was my point.
 
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Alan Harper's Tash said:
So it’s up to the individual. I quote enjoy Twitter. It doesn’t take up much of my time, but the people I follow mean I get a decent mix of comedy, news, football and other fields that I enjoy.

If Twitter asks me to pay for my account, it’ll be shut down.
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Ditto. Not sure any other form of media can provide what it does all in one place and I would miss it but no chance whatsoever I’d pay for it.
 
meltonblue said:
I’m not going to argue social media has had significant dentrimental effects though, although I’d argue a lot of that is educational issues as much as anything else that actually drives it.
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Yep, if you spend hours and hours scrolling through, randomly ‘liking’ a pic/post of other people’s ‘perfect’ lives, it is a bit grotesque IMO. If you use it to keep in contact with friends and family, learn more about some specific interests, use it for keeping yourself sane (BM ish!) with a reasonable cross section of society that happens to support a football team in blue… then seems ok.

But mindless scrolling of people posting their latest outfit/meal/drink/pet… I’d say that’s an unhealthy task
 
JASR said:
Yep, if you spend hours and hours scrolling through, randomly ‘liking’ a pic/post of other people’s ‘perfect’ lives, it is a bit grotesque IMO. If you use it to keep in contact with friends and family, learn more about some specific interests, use it for keeping yourself sane (BM ish!) with a reasonable cross section of society that happens to support a football team in blue… then seems ok.

But mindless scrolling of people posting their latest outfit/meal/drink/pet… I’d say that’s an unhealthy task
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Have a like. ;-)
 
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