Is anyone here going through the same situation? I usually consume content about films, series, anime, etc. But out of nowhere my feed started recommending racist, Nazi and right-wing content. I’m not saying that right-wingers are Nazis or racists, I’m saying that right-wing content is appearing to me alongside racist and Nazi content. Anyone here having the same problem?
Because it’s completely untrue that “everyone else has left.”
Congratulations on discovering hyperbole!
Hyperbole would be saying that everyone left when it was only 70% of people…but it’s probably more like 10-20% - the Twitter exodus was even smaller than the Reddit exodus. It’s incredibly easy to avoid the bots and Nazis if you use Twitter to interact with friends
If that’s what you use it for, why don’t you just pick up the goddamn phone to talk to your friends, and ditch the piece of shit that is X.
I believe the vast majority of people are using twitter on phone. Or are you implying that instead of social media we should be calling our friends by a phone? Ew…
Yes I meant talk to them. It’s what we used to do back before social media melted most people’s brains.
OK Grampa (I say this as someone in my 50s) - but that’s not the same kind of communication that twitter is for.
Back in my grandparents’ youth people would write letters to each other and send them through the mail, but the phone is good for other kinds of interaction, just like social media is good for yet other kinds of interaction.
So maybe you just jumped to spew your cumload into the conversation, but the original person to whom I replied indicated that it was specifically their friends they were socializing with. And sorry if this sounds too grandpa to you, but tweeting is not a friendship. I see how many young kids these days have “friendships” online but in the real world they couldn’t give a shit about one-another. That’s not friendship.
So, what I was saying to that person is that for your actual real life friends is not a reason to stay on Twitter. Go get together in person and interact the way humans have for the past half million years.
Oh but excuse me for being a grandpa because obviously the toxic and impersonal method of socializing you kids do today is just so much cooler than the way it’s been done for half million years. Clearly, Homo Sapiens was just lame. It’s so lucky that the little brats of today have come along and we’ve finally been given the gift of wisdom of pimpled tweens to know how to relate to one-another: facelessly, voiceless, distanced and atonal on a screen.
I’ll just conference call and group text pictures, good idea. I’ll also ask the acquaintances I’ve met on Twitter to pass me their phone numbers - I’m sure they’ll be OK with that! Especially at 2am when I think of a silly joke.
If there’s anyone left to ask, that is. EVERYONE left already.
TIL they put percentage limits on hyperbole. Thanks for letting me know friend!
Everyone knows that.