Some people who complain want to make things better. Others want attention, or just like to complain. How do you tell them apart? The ones who want to make things better engage earnestly with those they disagree with, to try to convert them to their point of view.
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you are not engaging with that person - you are engaging with your followers by using that person as a prop. Can be good too, but it's usually bad for any conversation
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It's funny, because you're probably right. retweet-with-comment CAN be used to say why you agree w something (& make it yours, vs a blind retweet). but then a comment can also be in agreement, but yet people assume that getting "ratio'd" is bad.
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Well, if that someone has no intention of engagement, an unproductive attempt to engage is no better than the "bad way" to engage via RT-with-comment. Engagement is a two-way sided relationship.
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Talking over vs Talking with
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I use it to avoid getting buried in a megathread. Twitter really needs more dimensions than just "down".
End of conversation
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It’s also part of a “cable news shows” culture that people adopt in engaging others. For the most part, there’s no really listening or engagement toward understanding or breaking down issues, just debate for the sake of it and attempts at one-liners.
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