As a once upper middle-class tax paying widowed career woman who had a beautiful home and husband who became 100% disabled by law now gets $13 EBT 0 housing aid, 1,234 SSDI, p month, shite medical care like so many)? I still pay taxes to my country so billionaires don't have to.
Schteve 🇺🇸 @christophaa
13 Apr 2022
Replying to @steve4108 @stormduke @Breaking911
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♥️ is entirely the wrong response to this. More like 💔 or 🤬, but Twitter is a blunt instrument.
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Well to be fair people use Twitter as a blunt instrument. That was not a blunt instrument. Since tomorrow is 4/ 20 oncology patients in many states may get a buy one get one free special;-)
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I'm sorry, I was not clear. I tapped ♥️ because I appreciate your honest and heartfelt tweets, including this one. Twitter is a "blunt instrument" in that I don't and can't "♥️" the situation you're in or the billionaire-obsessed culture that you decry. That's all.
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A final point I never did like that stupid heart it's too limiting for exactly the reason you described. I don't love a lot of things but I have to Heart them on Twitter in order to be able to go back to them later. What a failure of user experience. Maybe a photo of a Tesla? ;-)
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I think we have to treat it as a kind of “☝️THIS!“ button (which, frankly, would be a lot more useful than the stupid heart).
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A simple check mark would do. I acknowledge this post. We can articulate at length in our responses no;-)
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Aye. But of course, Twitter culture has developed to the point where a post that gets a lot of replies (but not a lot of likes) is "ratioed," which is bad. Starting a conversation is bad, but collecting Lazy Internet Points is good. OK, I think I see a problem here.
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It's called popularity contest not quality content. Could you imagine a 1993 web talking about celebrity dramas incessantly for weeks on end sometimes decades? Whoever thought this would be the web might have been right but they were not thinking very deeply, widely, or worldly.
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I imagine that Sir TBL must toss and turn a bit at what has become of his creation. "Web 2.0" turned out to be the undoing of the whole enterprise. I, for one, did not see it coming. I've worked on the Web since 1995, and sincerely thought it could be a force for good.
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Replying to @DLand
Me too since 1993 and you know what it is a Force for good. It's been co-opted largely by people who don't pay attention to that part of the web but it is very much alive. If it weren't I wouldn't be here with you all. Social networks are not my favorite but it's where people go!

Apr 20, 2022 · 3:12 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
You remind me that I was at the 2nd Int'l WWW Conf in '94 in Chicago, so not 1995. The Social Web isn't entirely toxic. I make a living helping clients connect with their audiencea (customers, partners, critics, advocates) via social media so … I see the good it can do, too.
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Well here we are on it but I think of it more of his networking and pure although I have been guilty of getting caught up in the politics nonsense in last year's butt it wasn't good for my mental health so I backed off!
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