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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Twitter is awful. I hate myself when I am reading it.
It has made society worse than before it existed. Significantly worse. Same with Facebook. Meaningful connections are down, misinformation is up, dumbing down of society is accelerating and critical thought evaporating. Twitter is a cesspool of societies worst opinions put on a pedestal and given gasoline while holding a match.
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You're following the wrong people then. Twitter is incredible as it let's you get access to interesting people sharing interesting ideas.
Even in politics I note most of the stuff i see on twitter is fairly reasonably presented, and I follow UK and US politics quite closely. I think one thing that works well is to not follow people who post in bad faith, are hysterical or repeatedly lie/misrepresent facts.
it's like the real world, tune out the idiots and it's pretty good.