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Sheena said:
I will miss Twitter a lot for athletics, really. There's nowhere else I get my info from. Thankfully, it's helped me meet a group of likeminded people who I now go to championships with, with whom I am proper friends and I am part of a very (too) active Whatsapp group of about 30 of us. So I'll thank it for that, but it's a fucking cesspit nowadays.
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I feel very, very seen. Different sports but 100% this. Attending tournaments and events, hilarious whatsapp groups etc.
 
I enjoy Twitter and find it invaluable as a means to quickly access breaking news. I almost never actually Tweet though. The older I've become the less I feel much need for validation via social media, and the more cautious I feel about opening up my life online in general. (I'm barely on Facebook or Instagram for similar reasons)

I do worry that a huge swathe of people have become too emotionally dependent on it in lieu of real human relationships. I see a lot of people right now stressing out about how much they're going to miss all their 'friends' and, maybe for some of them that's true, but is it really a meaningful friendship if it can't survive a website going down? I mean I'm aware that I'm posting this HERE, but at least Moopy has a degree more intimacy as a smaller community, and at this point I use it to stay in touch with people who I've primarily actually met in person at least a handful of times. Are twitter moot-meets a thing? They must be to some degree, but you never hear of them.

Ultimately, and I'm not saying my offline life is so fabulous or interesting by any means, but when I see people who are particularly Twitter popular or who Tweet all day every day, I can't help but imagine how much of their life that's taking up, and it makes you wonder if there's really anything else there?

Also, this goes beyond Twitter to Whatsapp, Insta etc, but the number of absolute horror stories I've heard from my teacher friends about cyber bullying, revenge porn etc being increasingly prevalent, in many cases before kids even hit their teens. It does make me wonder if there'll be a moment (perhaps now) when we all just pull back from it a bit and recalibrate, or (more likely) we just migrate to the next thing and become even more toxic and terminally online.
 
Twitter is great imo, and essential during an election, and I almost never see anything toxic on my feed. I really doubt I'll ever make friends there thought. Thats for real life (and moopy)

I like instagram too, but I think thats where bullying is more likely to happen (and in whatsapps/group texts)
 
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I mean rip twitter but fucking hell its going to be a loltastic death
 
The world is now like one big parody. How are social media platforms, run badly or otherwise, able to take down a company because of a fake message? Is the world’s stock exchange system THAT fragile?

No wonder the global economy is in tatters!
 
I’m sure this ingenious ruse will allay any fears the stakeholders might currently be having. :)

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That was the problem with Twitter before, you see. It just wasn’t getting enough attention.
 
I mean, we still write about the Titanic even though it sank to the BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN a century ago.
 
VoR said:
I do worry that a huge swathe of people have become too emotionally dependent on it in lieu of real human relationships. I see a lot of people right now stressing out about how much they're going to miss all their 'friends' and, maybe for some of them that's true, but is it really a meaningful friendship if it can't survive a website going down? I mean I'm aware that I'm posting this HERE, but at least Moopy has a degree more intimacy as a smaller community, and at this point I use it to stay in touch with people who I've primarily actually met in person at least a handful of times. Are twitter moot-meets a thing? They must be to some degree, but you never hear of them.

Also, this goes beyond Twitter to Whatsapp, Insta etc, but the number of absolute horror stories I've heard from my teacher friends about cyber bullying, revenge porn etc being increasingly prevalent, in many cases before kids even hit their teens. It does make me wonder if there'll be a moment (perhaps now) when we all just pull back from it a bit and recalibrate, or (more likely) we just migrate to the next thing and become even more toxic and terminally online.
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I think in terms of relationships and Twitter - it is the primary way that I keep in touch with certain friends so that makes me a little nervous. I have also made meaningful irl friends on there so i’m sad about potentially losing the opportunity to continue making those connections.

I may be wrong but I don’t get the impression that Twitter is the primary venue for teen cyber bullying. I have increasingly got the impression that zoomer see Instagram and Twitter as being ‘old people’ (see: millennial) platforms in the way a lot of us now look at Facebook. Not to say that Twitter doesn’t have problems with bullying and abuse - speaking as someone who has been doxxed by a TERF :D
 
BIG OUTAGE WEDNESDAY

I am loving all the suspense this is creating
 
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