https://www.businessinsider.com/linus-torvalds-says-twitter-facebook-instagram-a-disease-2019-4
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Torvalds told Linux Journal that the internet eliminates all the social cues that are usually part of communications, so "nobody can hear you being subtle."
"It's easy to miss humor and sarcasm, but it's also very easy to overlook the reaction of the recipient, so you get things like flame wars, etc., that might not happen as easily with face-to-face interaction," he said.
Torvalds said the same issues can crop up with email, too, but he believes email is more necessary and often communicating real information, which is not always so with social media.
"The whole 'liking' and 'sharing' model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control. In fact, it's all geared to the reverse of quality control, with lowest common denominator targets, and click-bait, and things designed to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage," he said.
"Some people confuse privacy and anonymity and think they go hand in hand, and that protecting privacy means that you need to protect anonymity. I think that's wrong. Anonymity is important if you're a whistle-blower, but if you cannot prove your identity, your crazy rant on some social-media platform shouldn't be visible, and you shouldn't be able to share it or like it," he said.
Luckily, perhaps due to th3core, I haven't been exposed to that strain of the virus. Forums, though.....
Quote from: rcjordan on April 05, 2019, 01:41:29 PM
Luckily, perhaps due to th3core, I haven't been exposed to that strain of the virus. Forums, though.....
I feel like that calls for a sarcastic, insensitive response, but the right one is just not coming to mind....HHH
If you knew how much time we spent on wmw while building it out the first 2 years, you'd know it was a disease, for sure.
You were inflicted pretty hard RC.
Missed the first two years, but spent a ridiculous amount of time on the PHP forum with Jatar_K and Coopster for a long time.
> inflicted pretty hard
You know you've been poaching a lot of users from competitive forums when you find your nick has been pre-banned.