• hardly_alex
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    451 year ago

    Grandpa is just X’ing racist things again!

  • @Hazdaz
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    291 year ago

    “I remember when they were still called Tweets”

  • ShustOne
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    241 year ago

    I love that this is basically a “back in my day” but disguised as a problem that zoomers will have. Old man shouts at cloud but instead one day zoomers will yell at water in the sky!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      51 year ago

      Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening. I recently heard someone my age lamenting the fact that kids these days don’t know what the save icon is because they don’t know what floppy disks are. I thought “Who gives a fuck?” Then later on a TV show I saw people using the verb “Tweet” and I thought “Well that’s going the way of the dodo” and here we are.

  • Flying Squid
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    161 year ago

    Fair enough. I’m Gen-X and I started complaining about “kids today” when I was about 15. I’ve always been an old man.

  • @thantik
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    1 year ago

    And nothing of value was lost. In fact, I’d almost prefer that anything you say on the internet not be a permanent fixture upon the internet. Leave it up for a year, or like 10 for politicians or historical figures - but nothing that can fit in a short-post like twitter is worth saving for long.

    • @hark
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      21 year ago

      and deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don’t think so!

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?

  • @Gamey
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    41 year ago

    Let’s just hope people will forget that shithole before they can get nostalgic!

  • @Wowiejr
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    21 year ago

    If you Tweet on Twitter I vote messages on X be called X-crements.