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by dahwolf 1027 days ago
Agreed. Take something as simple as a "quote tweet".

The physical analogy is that you're listening to somebody, then turn around to speak to a group of "friends" about it whilst the other person can hear you do it. And you'd likely misrepresent what was said and receive an applause for it.

It's a deeply anti-social behavior that in the real world would make you wake up in a hospital pretty soon.

Or how about a retweet of a hot take? Imagine going all over town and plastering walls with a low effort opinion.

Or how about digging into somebody's past to find something offensive from a decade ago? What would the physical analogy look like? Following somebody for 10 years, taking notes, making pictures, interviewing your friends and family? Which would amount to what normally would be a deep criminal investigation, yet here we do it just for kicks?

Social media has normalized deeply anti-social behavior and the consequences are severe.