20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive
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also, the age-based social structure
@backus illuminates provides a nice "real" reason for the resurfacing, which feels much better than, say, a script that sends you a classic to re-read every Tuesday. -
This is one thing I miss about academia: a much flatter age distribution. Nothing like discussing a 40 year old-essay with a friend of the author's (who read it 40 years ago), a student of the author (who read it 30 years ago), an experienced colleague (20 years), etc etc.
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