Some people will be insincere and ill-intentioned, obviously, but if you start with an assumption that all members of a group who disagree with you are, all you can possibly achieve is further antagonism and polarisation.
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And, on that note, I seem to be back but I do have a new strategy for Twitter. It's going to involve engaging with only about 10% of the tweets I get. This will be necessary for my sanity.
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I have been thinking in terms of setting myself rules for tweets and tweeters I will not engage with but I think this is the wrong way round. Better to think in terms of those I will.
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I will go through as many tweets as I have time for in limited break times within a new work schedule I have to keep to strictly. I will respond to anything which seems worth responding to for any reason I feel inspired to respond to it. That is the whole of the new strategy.
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I'm probably going to still respond to quite a lot and tweet way more than average but the point is, I don't have to. I need to internalise this rule. I do not have to respond to anyone or anything at all.
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Obviously, if someone tweets me a valid criticism of something I have written, I will feel it needs a response but no more feeling I must respond to people who have decided to tell me what I think & why it makes me evil and/or stupid.
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Also, going to feel free to move past tweets about topics I have grown tired of arguing about or that raise issues which I either don't know about or don't care about. That will remove about half of my most frustrating exchanges.
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Someone may feel I have a responsibility to have an indepth discussion with them on the topic of whether or not God exists because I have expressed a view that he/she/it does not, but, in fact, I don't. I am weary of that debate & am allowed to state my view on it &leave it there
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I used to love Twitter for enabling me to have the conversations I wanted to have and connect with all kinds of people from all over the world. I have not been loving it for a while now. I intend to fix this. I shall be taking my own advice.https://conatusnews.com/twitter-productive-conversation/ …
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So, please excuse me if I ignore you when in the past we have had good conversations. I still love my tweeps. It will probably mean I haven't seen you or that I am getting too many tweets or that, on this occasion, I have nothing in me to contribute on that topic.
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I now have 'Office Hours' from 9-7 Monday - Friday with an hour's lunch break and two half-hour tea-breaks (obviously, I will be drinking tea continuously) and from 12- 5 with one tea break on Saturdays and 12-3 on Sundays. This will be necessary to fit everything in.
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You’ve gotten all sensible on yourself
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Elizabeth! Why have you gone all American?!
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Why have you gotten all telly offy? I’m not sure I like this new Helen of Twitter!
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Hehehehehehe. I regularly police my country men and women (but more often men) on creeping laxness in relation to tea preparation and Americanisms. We cannot let standards slide, you know!
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Yes. Start with that assumption is good. But also speak truthfully about the effect of people's actions. The way so many on the Left, including big institutions, went straight to character assassination of Kanye and the people he Retweeted like Scott Adams is a big problem.
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Sure, you can disagree with people on the left who don't like Kanye or the people he retweeted. They can still dislike his character tho.
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