What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?
What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?
In my case I've hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.
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Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.
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I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human'd all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I'd love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.
If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don't want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.
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Why did you think it was a terrible idea?
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It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.
I still think it's a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don't know whether it significantly impacted the platform's success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can't say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.
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Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing the better mind much more difficult
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