honestly kind of floored at the prevelence and virulence of incel panic, biggest collective journo meltdown since summer before the election
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so much ink spilled over the dangers of facebook for democracy (fake news, russian bots, microtargeted ads) which all fits a narrative of normal voters being duped
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but little if any journalism acknowledging the possibility that *their* being on twitter, exposed to "internet people" 24/7, and what it does to their psyches, is likely far more damaging
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Replying to @alicemazzy
I don't encounter very many non-"internet people" anymore...
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @alicemazzy
I still know many but I never seem to meet new ones. Perhaps they are fading out like Shakers, passenger pigeons, and jazz fans
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF @puellavulnerata
imo everyone uses the internet, few *inhabit* the internet
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Replying to @alicemazzy @puellavulnerata
Long ago I was an engineer intern for a state highway department. Everyone drove on their roads but those engineers lived there. Is that what you're getting at or is my understanding being attacked by an antiquated metaphor?
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF @alicemazzy
I'm not sure it's the same thing. Network engineers or web devs are not necessarily "from the internet" in the relevant sense, for example.
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @JohnBarnesSF
yea I am referring to people whose primary socialization/acculturation experience was on the dregs of the net rather than offline
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for us none of what's emerging into mainstream discourse is at all new or strange, it's mundane, what we grew up on
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what's novel is watching all the people for whom it is totally alien suddenly have to scramble and try to cope with it
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And they've still never heard of Usenet.
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