I've just had my first 'viral' tweet, and realized how terrible twitter is

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Well I really didn't see that coming. Honestly it was late at night and I was just wondering on the data for boys, knowing that males are a much higher percentage of the incarcerated population than females. Are they going down too? Or up? or staying the same?

Just fired off a quick question, and if you look at this I defy you to see anything wrong. My mistake is hidden in the ...

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So...this is a womans group. Indeed, a feminist group. They don't give a shit about boys, and probably they shouldn't because that isn't in their statutes to care about.

But even so, I was a bit surprised that my question, formulated to the wrong group to be sure, was seen as an attack on their success, somehow taking away from the good work they had done.

I woke up the next morning to 400+ notifications.

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I slowly grinded through the responses, admitting I had made a mistake. That's the polite way to do it right?

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But the more I typed, the faster the notifications came it. Dozens of notifications were pouring in for each one I successfully responded to.

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Some of the responses were nicer than others. A handful of people even defended me in my mistake, reminding others that there was not much context to assume that my comment was based in malice, which it surely wasn't.

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Some of the discussions were getting toxic, and as one commenter noted, people began to get sucked in and pile-on from both sides of the issue. And still the notifications rolled in.

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As I got to the end of the replies, ignoring some and responding to what I felt were the most earnest, I continued to see notifications roll in. What was happening?

That's when I realized how stupid twitter is. I was continuing to be tagged in every series of comments UNDER mine, where pile-onners continued to debate, incredibly toxically, the nature of men and women and all their differences.

Oh my.

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These are people fighting with each other, completely devoid to any reference to my original question, battling viciously about sexism and reverse-sexism and men and women. Some were smarter than others, some more respectful than others, but none of them really had anything to do with my tweet other than that they took place under my question.

And not to mention all the notifications as people from both sides liked their favorite arguments as the sides go back and forth.

I stayed interested for a while...

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But could only hold out for so long. And imagine, 40 comment threads and 242 likes is not even viral - not really. Over all of this it seems I might have gained 1 follower, and quite possibly for the wrong reason. What a waste of human energy.

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I doubt I will post very many replies to this. I actually did find some data on google that said that incarcerated boys (and girls) have been heading on a downtrend since 2003, although the data I found only went through 2012.

And honestly, I don't care anymore. Not about the data, I am still interested in that. But about the people on twitter. Eat yourselves alive, give yourselves ulcers, I couldn't care less.

I'll keep posting on my cryptographically owned blog here on HIVE. I own it, and I can post what I want, no one can do anything about it. They can take my rewards (if they want, and have the HP), but they can never take my freedom!

And I find it funny that some people think HIVE is toxic. Learn something folks - the internet is toxic. Its just the way it is, we learned to ignore the trolls (or laugh at them) from a young age, being offended helps no one.

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Bang, I did it again... I just rehived your post!
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Dude, that is rough!

I find it so weird that if I retweet something, and someone replies to that tweet then somehow I'm totally involved in that. That is not my favourite at all.

I understand you were just asking a question that you were interested in, but I think the reason you got attacked so much was because of the phrasing of your question. They were excited about an absolutely incredible achievement and because you didn't say anything like "That's amazing", "Absolutely incredible", "Well done", "Congratulations", etc before asking your question people saw it that you were dismissing their achievement completely and focusing only on what you saw as important.

I can also totally see the opposite happening too, if it was a group working on incarcerated boys were celebrating and you rocked in with a 'what about girls?' I reckon you probably would have been slammed harder.

I'd say the lesson here is to give people encouragement on their achievements and then ask follow up questions...

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Yes I thought Hawai'ian commission for .... was a state agency and I was talking to some government people, totally did not think I was talking to a random feminist group that is totally proud and rightly so for some achievement they had done.

Ironically - and this is a problem - I got way more engagement for behavior that people seem to not like. Twitter is yucky.

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Completely agree! These traditional social media platforms absolutely lift up and highlight anything with engagement in order to create more engagement... so I reckon most people who clicked on that original tweet would have seen your question as the top response. I seriously think a lot of the world's problems right now come down to these algorithms and it's a total bummer you got caught on the wrong side of it.

Hopefully the next time a tweet of yours goes viral it's for something amazing!!

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Sadly most people retweet what they can use. There is not a genuine interest in communicating.

  • the internet is toxic. Its just the way it is,

I would ammend that. Social media is toxic.

The Internet itself is mostly benign. I actually found the independent web sites that social critics dismiss as "Web 1.0" to be more informative and positive than the tripe produced on centralized social media platforms (aka Web2.0) and the centralized blockchains (aka Web3.0).

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That's an awful experience. Sorry to hear that. Subjective things shouldn't be up for public debate, they should be kept private where they belong. It's the first rule in divide and rule.

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Garbage like this is why I stopped using Twitter.

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It's going to be fun if we got more crowds like that on Hive then rinse and repeat the same argument about censorship.

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