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Razia ([personal profile] razia) wrote in [personal profile] memorizingthedigitsofpi 2021-06-22 08:03 pm (UTC)

The way people are incentivized and rewarded (with likes/rts/follows) for starting drama is one of the big reasons for putting me off social media lately. I tried my hand at Twitter for a few months, and those were very, very miserable months. I was constantly bombarded by tweets of people I didn't follow and subjects that don't interest me at all, either because someone I follow liked it or because the algorithm thought I might like it.

Also, it might just be my very personal experience, but people also seem to be nastier on Twitter, if only for the fact that you have very few words to use, and need to be as snappy and concise as possible. Not that Tumblr is much better, but at least it has a bigger character limit. It's also exhausting to be in public mode all the time, knowing that at any point anyone can stumble upon your words, and try to spin some drama out of it.

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