Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.
I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.
Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.
You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.
No one has debates on Twitter.
It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something.
There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
