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My Farewell to Twitter

74 点作者 user_235711超过 8 年前

19 条评论

wmccullough超过 8 年前
I&#x27;m was never at the level described by the author, but I left Twitter for the same thing. I too am a creator and I&#x27;d get retweets with very little action. That was a huge moment for me because I realized the reality of Twitter. It&#x27;s one giant bullshit factory.<p>You can even tell how much it affects the minds of people who are prolific other places. Writers for tech blogs stop writing about useful shit and start writing about the reactions of twitter posts. You can see how the self obsession causes people to try to craft those perfect 140 characters. Everyone thinks they are a comedian.<p>In the end I found that no matter how diverse your followership, Twitter is a hopeless echo chamber populated by twentysomethings with no real life experience who are chomping at the bit to eat you alive if you don&#x27;t conform to the enforced political correctness of the moment.<p>I&#x27;ll never go back.
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turc1656超过 8 年前
I am proud to say I essentially shun all socia media. I have never had a Twitter or Instagram account. I do have Facebook, but I essentially never use it - I haven&#x27;t posted anything in years other than &quot;happy birthday&quot; to a few people.<p>Social media has always been incredibly self-centered and narcissistic. But over the last few years it has become a truly nasty place with all the flame wars and political crap going on. Everyone has something to say. And no one listens to anyone else. I have no use for such a medium in my life.<p>Twitter is by far the worst of all social media because of the limited message length. No well-reasoned arguments can be expressed in that short limit so we are instead left with a battle for the snarkiest, most sarcastic comments people can muster.<p>The so-called &quot;discourse&quot; in America (and probably the world) has reached a new pathetic low. I am confident I am not missing out on anything of actual value.
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cyberferret超过 8 年前
You know, the author of this blog post echoes my thoughts almost verbatim. I am feeling like I am swept away in filthy, roiling, floodwater every time I switch to my Twitter tab. It has become exhausting, and a detriment to my actual work, so I am going to take a sabbatical.<p>Facebook to a lesser extent - that platform is still a useful means to communicate with family who are scattered wide.<p>By far, I am really enjoying Instagram at the moment - it is SO much more peaceful and non-confrontational. I only have a tiny couple of hundred followers, and am following about the same number of friends, musicians, guitar makers, tea manufacturers and such. It is just <i>nice</i> to sit back and scroll through my feed and see uplifting images with NO arguments or one upmanship or sniping going on...
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eddieroger超过 8 年前
I must be using Twitter wrong, because seeing that these articles come up so frequently, I feel like I&#x27;m one of the last people who still likes it. I did get turned off when it got marketer heavy (right around when App.net tried to be a thing), but came back to it a few years ago. I only follow ~700 people, and am followed by ~300, so I know I don&#x27;t get most of the spam that heavily followed people get. In the nearly 10 years I&#x27;ve had an account, I&#x27;ve only posted 5400ish tweets, so I consume far more than I contribute. But, in general, I like it again. I get headlines from my local news outlets, occasional pictures from Star Wars sets, thoughts of other folks I admire and aspire to be like, and an outlet for the short, dumb things I have to say. If I wanted to write longer form, I have a blog, so I have never done those 10+ tweet storm things, and never typed &quot;&#x2F;1&quot; at the end of a tweet. It&#x27;s never open on my computer, so it&#x27;s mostly checked on the couch, while waiting in lines, or when I&#x27;m otherwise idle.<p>I think this is where I differ with the author of the article is that the expectation of return for me from Twitter is zero. If I go a day without checking, I don&#x27;t care. If I post something to it that dies on the vine, I don&#x27;t care. Sometimes I get likes, sometimes retweets, but nothing I put out there is expected to have a return.
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angry-hacker超过 8 年前
I have given up on social media too, but not for &quot;Stallman&quot; reasons but rather it makes me unhappy.<p>Hacker News is the only place I visit and thought HN the websites too. I have visited HN every night for the past 4 or 5 years. It gives me everything I need, I need to stay away from politics though because I don&#x27;t agree with majority here and discussing things makes me depressed.
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noahbradley超过 8 年前
I left Facebook a couple years ago and Twitter a couple weeks ago. I used both somewhat successfully to promote my work for a long time.<p>I find it remarkable how much better my life feels already. I have so much more focus, energy, and concentration to devote to my work. I don&#x27;t have the constant nagging at the back of my mind to mindlessly scroll. Left without an easy escape, I find my focus tends to go towards actually creating things. And if I feel the itch to interact with people, it&#x27;s more of a one-on-one interaction.<p>I highly recommend trying it.
Tistel超过 8 年前
Warning, this will be slightly vulgar. If you go to zoo and see primates that are mad, they sometimes throw <i>ahem</i> waste products at each other. We share 96% (or whatever) DNA with them. I am willing to bet $2.56 that if you did a MRI scan of a monkey in &quot;throw mode&quot; and a human on social media ranting, the same parts of the brain will light up.<p>I am so sick of politics (all sides)
imartin2k超过 8 年前
Did the same in November. The aspect regarding the &quot;silence&quot; mentioned in the article is actually quite amazing. I&#x27;m still not fully used to it so sometimes it seems as if I have forgotten to do something important. But no, it&#x27;s just that there is no witty tweet that has to be drafted or a (possibly heated) discussion that has to be continued.
overcast超过 8 年前
This seems to be the trend over the past couple of years. Started with Twitter with me, then Facebook, then Reddit. Hacker News, YouTube, and a couple mature news sites are about all I use outside of my own projects at this point. I&#x27;ve even gotten to the point, where I&#x27;ve installed comment section blockers in my browsers, so I won&#x27;t see all of the horrible things people say to one another these days.<p>I&#x27;m honestly surprised on how much things like SnapChat, and even Facebook are still growing. It must be just the very young crowd, that hasn&#x27;t gotten completely sick of it by now.
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warcode超过 8 年前
Why not just create a completely new account with no ties to who you actually are, follow the cat picture accounts, Neil deGrasse Tyson and whatever else you are interested in?<p>Trying to get more followers seems to be the bad thing.
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vonklaus超过 8 年前
Went into the article assuming it was another anti free speech whine piece. Was pleasantly surprised that it was more generally about social media, MH, and a dependency cycle.<p>This pervades social media culture and as is noted in the article-- a user <i>knows</i> it is taking a toll but the rush is a driving factor. It is like drug, or any addiction-- captivating and hard to break.<p>Decent article, nice change of pace from other articles recently.
facetube超过 8 年前
Here&#x27;s a previous HN post along the same lines – the foreboding letter to the future, if you will, from an ex-Google design ethicist: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds...</a>.
james_pm超过 8 年前
I&#x27;m right there with you. Unfollowed everyone, set my profile to say &quot;I&#x27;m out.&quot; and told people to send me an iMessage if they want to chat. I&#x27;m still composing meaningless tweets in my mind.<p>Hopefully another few weeks will cure me of this, although after 10 years, I suspect it might take much longer.
thraway2016超过 8 年前
Twitter has been good in the past. After the election, it was still mostly ok. But since the inauguration, it&#x27;s a completely different story.<p>One example close to the heart of HN: following tptacek&#x2F;tqbf for crypto&#x2F;business&#x2F;security&#x2F;how-to-cook-pork&#x2F;funny-ESR-excerpts for years has suddenly turned into endless berating of people into enduring struggle sessions over support of the President.<p>And this is but one example. It&#x27;s happening to everybody. For some reason, the inauguration has turned nominally good Tweeps into horrible human beings.<p>So yes, I&#x27;ve had to leave Twitter also.
joecool1029超过 8 年前
Not gonna lie, clicked this headline hoping it was @jack&#x27;s resignation.
getpost超过 8 年前
I enjoyed using Twitter for ~8 years. It gave me access to news and opinions from groups that aren&#x27;t covered by traditional media, and it functioned as an RSS feed for people I wanted to follow (authors, researchers, etc.)<p>However, I quit Twitter because it wouldn&#x27;t let me control my own data. I was in the habit of favoriting things that I wanted to follow-up on. Then Twitter changed Favorites to &quot;likes,&quot; which wrongly implies I&#x27;m endorsing the content. Twitterati know that likes don&#x27;t necessarily mean anything, but imagine a customs officer looking at my likes, for example. Twitter doesn&#x27;t provide a method to batch remove all likes, so I tried various 3rd party utilities. The utilities seemed to work initially, but likes would later reappear, even months later, as if restored from a backup.<p>This experience helped me see that silos can never be trusted.
bachmeier超过 8 年前
Twitter is a great way to get your name out there and establish a relationship with others. It&#x27;s a terrible way to make direct sales, because that&#x27;s not why people go to Twitter. If they&#x27;re on Amazon (which <i>is</i> a place they go to buy stuff) maybe they&#x27;ll type your name into the search bar because of what they saw on Twitter.<p>I treat my Twitter account as a personal account. I don&#x27;t tweet very much, and if I want to take a week off, I don&#x27;t even check Twitter. I am happy I did that, because I&#x27;d hate to feel an obligation to be on there now that everything is politics.
JustSomeNobody超过 8 年前
Ok, but who are you?
to3m超过 8 年前
Interesting - PgUp&#x2F;PgDn stop working when I maximize the window. I&#x27;ve got a 1440x2560 screen.<p>Relevance to Twitter? (a) Twitter as its worst is still 10x better than this sort of thing; (b) Twitter&#x27;s Following page doesn&#x27;t work properly at this resolution either.