Twitter is roughly equivalent to walking out on a street in NYC and yelling something and being surprised random people throw hate at you. At this point, I try to stick to small communities of people with shared values or people I know in person. I find it works great. Good quality information generally filters in somehow so I don’t feel like I miss out on anything and it’s not like the laws of developing good software or whatever interests I have actually change so frequently that getting a realtime stream adds any value.
On the technology side of this, what is really terrible is these platforms are not providing open protocols. Email let anyone write a client that did what they want. Twitter and Facebook do not allow this and it means you’re stuck with whatever priorities some PO at Twitter and Facebook has decided, which is generally around growth and appealing to the masses. This is what I dislike about the “winner take all” nature of social networks. I might want the network but I want to experience it my own way.
I sympathize with the author and agree with him. Moving off of these Platforms of Negativity has worked well for me.
The truth is: you don’t need to be on Twitter.
Twitter is roughly equivalent to walking out on a street in NYC and yelling something and being surprised random people throw hate at you. At this point, I try to stick to small communities of people with shared values or people I know in person. I find it works great. Good quality information generally filters in somehow so I don’t feel like I miss out on anything and it’s not like the laws of developing good software or whatever interests I have actually change so frequently that getting a realtime stream adds any value.
On the technology side of this, what is really terrible is these platforms are not providing open protocols. Email let anyone write a client that did what they want. Twitter and Facebook do not allow this and it means you’re stuck with whatever priorities some PO at Twitter and Facebook has decided, which is generally around growth and appealing to the masses. This is what I dislike about the “winner take all” nature of social networks. I might want the network but I want to experience it my own way.
I sympathize with the author and agree with him. Moving off of these Platforms of Negativity has worked well for me.