Finding another bar

[Timsup2nothin]

I read this story in USA Today while I was having breakfast at Starbucks. It was about a guy who was apparently well known on Twitter, who deleted his account recently. His reasoning seemed pretty wise. He just asked a simple question: if Twitter was a real place, would you go there?

So I'm pondering.

Imagine there were a pub...one of those quiet ones where people gather in comfortable chairs and converse...that you frequented. You were comfortable there, and had made quite a few friends.

If someone asked why you spent your time there, would you say "to learn things?" Even if you had learned some things there, you'd probably not say that. Sure, once in a while someone brings in a newspaper and points out something you've missed, but that's not why you go there. It's a social place, not an academy.

Now, imagine that this place decided that it would "be good for you" if you were exposed to "more diverse viewpoints" and started running ads in the local neo-Nazi paper, and some white supremacist types started showing up. Would you get in these newcomers' faces? Would you still go there?

What if the management instituted a policy, and the bouncers started defending these interlopers? If it were a real place, would you still go there?

 

[Ryika]

Puddin', I do not think you should visit that bar ever. Does not sound like a fun place to be.

 

[warpus]

if Twitter was a real place, would you go there?

No, because that's where all the morons would be. Plus it'd be packed. Plus everyone would be doling out soundbites instead of actually conversing. I prefer more chilled out pubs. Plus I don't understand your metaphors

 

[civvver]

The virtual world is hardly comparable to the physical world. No I wouldn't go to that bar cus it'd be really uncomfortable. But comparing twitter to a physical hang out place isn't even apples and oranges it's like apples compared to something that isn't even food.

 

[BvBPL]

No, because that's where all the morons would be. Plus it'd be packed. Plus everyone would be doling out soundbites instead of actually conversing. I prefer more chilled out pubs. Plus I don't understand your metaphors

Warpus only understands your similes!

 

[caketastydelish]

I would not go to a bar where you are only allowed to say short sentences without properly articulating/elaborating yourself, and a bar where the most cheap, obnoxious people tend to have the most followers. On the other hand, I can't honestly say that, because there's never been shortage of real bars out there to meet that description, and sometimes I even enjoy myself.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Imagine there were a pub

I myself would still go to the pub, and find a corner where there's fruitful conversation going on.

That's what I've always felt I've had to do anyway with this pub, with this hypothetical pub we're talking about.

 

[Cutlass]

Do you still get something out of talking to the people who are not nazis there?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Here is your answer as to why you would want to go there:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...14487753847d59705d0ffbb55620b65e&action=click

 

[Arwon]

Your Twitter feed is ultimately self-curated

 

[Lexicus]

Do you still get something out of talking to the people who are not nazis there?

I do, but I find it pretty annoying when I go into a part of the bar and find that everyone is responding to the Nazis' crap, it makes the Nazis very difficult to ignore.

 

[Narz]

I'll miss you Tim.

 

[Berzerker]

I do, but I find it pretty annoying when I go into a part of the bar and find that everyone is responding to the Nazis' crap, it makes the Nazis very difficult to ignore.

welcome to Tim's Pub

 

[Takhisis]

Your Twitter feed is ultimately self-curated

Same as your YouTube and Facebook, really.

 

[warpus]

Same with the real world in many ways as well. If you have toxic friends, cut them out and find better friends.

 

[caketastydelish]

Considering so many lawyers are drunks, is that why it is called the bar exam?