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Comment by jawarner

5 years ago

Are you on Twitter? It's a more common platform for political stuff. Facebook is for friends, and unless you want to discuss politics with all of your friends at once, why not just keep it to personal stuff?

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bryan_w  5 years ago

It's funny, one of my friends posted on his FB, "Who are you voting for and why?" And nobody took the bait. He just got a bunch of popcorn eating gifs

tboyd47  5 years ago

Yeah, I tried Twitter too, but so few of my friends use it, it just seemed like a clunkier, angrier version of HN with about half the average IQ points.

  • Joeri  5 years ago

    I think that is the point of twitter: it is what people say without a filter and without thinking it through. I’ve found the proper way to use it is to follow extreme opinions from the entire spectrum to get a sense of what is brewing.

  • greyswan  5 years ago

    I wouldn't say I recommend trying this, but it takes time to find people you are actually interested in on Twitter.

    All the obvious "blue check-mark" people have zero insight at best. There is a whole weird world of small follower count people on there. Small communities. People with unique ideas. People that will actually respond to replies.

    Again, I don't think it an addiction you should necessarily cultivate, but there is value to be had.