#my rsd bren latches on and withers away

[recordmcqueen]

not to reiterate my ‘twitter is the bane of critical thinking’ sentiment but the system of restricting post content by character limit and thread continuations only being accessible via extra clicks really butchers any of the nuance in arguments and thats why you end up with the kind of wildly reductionist discourse that honestly gets really draining

like here on tumblr its common to have customarily tagged ‘#long post’s which serves as nothing but acknowledgement cause im sure no one actually filters that tag anyway and it doesnt appear until the very end of a post

and so you read through these giant reblog chains of discussion and clarification and by the end you have - if nothing else - a wider perception of the issue at hand

meanwhile on twitter all you get a little blurb of flash information with little to no clarification or insight directly presented, so all you have to  base your perception of X issue is this one tweet

it just concerns me that the younger generation getting their information from twitter is subject to this method of education cause instead of developing the ability to think critically and explore nuance, they see one (1) fraction of an issue and immediately take a position based on that

anyway twitter is the bane of critical thinking <3

#allya squawks #allya rants #ill say its better than instagram as far as my experience goes cause #insta just invokes sheer spite in me #but twitter gets so draining like i still Use it bc majority of my friends use it as their main platform #theres some great art and fan contents #but on the whole its just so polarized and it gets really draining really quickly #thats not even accounting for the social anxiety factor #being notified of your friends' interactions constantly #and seeing it on your tl right there is just another level of torture tbh <//3 #my rsd bren latches on and withers away