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> On 11 July 2019 at 09:06 Giles Coochey <giles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 11/07/2019 08:58, Tom via list wrote: > > On 11/07/2019 08:40, Andy Wills wrote: > >> On 11 Jul 2019 7:51 am, Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> Anyone who has used twitter should realise that (like FB which I use > >>> a lot) is totally useless for anything other than shouting into the > >>> void. > >> What a vivid phrase :-) Shouting into a void would of course be > >> pointless because it contains literally nothing. Twitter, I think, is > >> a means of trying to solve the opposite problem - reaching the few > >> people in a crowded world who are interested in what you do. > >> > > Judging from the threads I've seen it would appear all it does is > > attract people to shout into your void. I've not seen a thread that > > hasn't been seriously derailed before the bottom of the first page. > > > The emergence of social media platforms over the last decade or so, > remind me of AOL joining the Internet in 1993, prior to that newsgroup > threads (NNTP) were filled with courteous academic discussions, it's > been downhill all the way since then. > I can recall when there was lots of information on ....alt 2000 was it ? or something like that. It was all text and before google. You searched using the browser. I recall reading text a how-to on Google ! Jon > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq