jdw

Stabitha_Christie said:

On the contrary, I haven't complained about you at all. I have poked fun of your lack of self-awareness.

Not "at all"???
"On the contrary" indicates you disagree with me.  So let's ponder what you wrote earlier in response to me...

"...having to listen to you complain that AppleInsider had the audacity to publish accurate information....... what exactly are you afraid of in this situation, why does knowledge frighten you?"

Go ahead and label your reply to me as merely "poking fun" if you will, but I view that as a thinly veiled complaint of me.  And of course, I think it's rather crazy too because the "knowledge" you speak of is the heart of the matter.  So let's dive deeper into "knowledge" and "accurate information," shall we?

My opening post on page 1 of this thread was about the OTHER related AppleInsider article, under which we are prohibited from posting comments (although FaceBook does allow them under that same article, funny as that is).  The title of that other related article is "How to delete your Twitter account on iOS & the web."

As many have commented under that article on FaceBook, regardless of the motivations of AppleInsider in publishing that article, it does come off as a "suggestion" rather than general help that countless people have been asking for.  Disagree? Think I and others are misreading that article as being a "suggestion"?  Consider this...

One would be blind or ignorant NOT to know of all the articles the tech media in general puts out every single day which bash Musk and Twitter in one way or another.  It's largely negative, as if the tech media thought extremely well of Twitter prior to Musks purchase, but now despises Twitter mainly because of Musk and because of changes to Twitter that the tech media FEELS are not in the best interest of everyone.  It's also easy to pile on the bashing when everyone else in your tech media industry is doing the same; and since Twitter and Musk aren't Apple, it's not like AppleInsider is speaking anything negative about the company we all know and love.  So while bashing Apple on a site named AppleInsider would be taboo, not so of Twitter and Musk which aren't a part of Apple.  It's gloves-off when it comes to Twitter!

When you as an AppleInsider or tech-media reader understand that generally NEGATIVE sentiment about Musk and Twitter very much exists, and then you come along and spot an article on one of your favorite Apple-focused news sources that is titled "How to delete your Twitter account on iOS & the web," it's pretty darned hard NOT to think of that being yet another article in a stream of others which take that same tired, negative narrative about Musk and Twitter.  

It's not like the article says: "We like Twitter, but we realize some people don't, so here's how to delete your account."  That would be more positive, upbeat, and would break with the generally negative narrative of the tech media.  Such wording would establish an article about account deletion being more of a helpful FYI than a subtle suggestion.  Sorry to say though, the opening paragraph in that article actually takes the negative tone I just referred to by saying: "Given how things are going on Twitter, and the options that have cropped up lately, folks are looking for the exit."  

Wow.  No wonder people like myself view the article as more of a suggestion than a mere FYI article which only resulted because of so many people asking for it!

Note the statement: "given how things are going."  

Friends, how ARE things going?  According to the tech media in general, as I just said, they would say things at Twitter are not going well.  And yet, not all Twitter users take that stance.  They view it more as a battle for the mind.

The topic of Twitter is as polarizing as the topic of politics in general in the USA today.  Why? Because it is inseparably tied to politics!  As such, articles written about Twitter need to take that into account, not with comment bans, but with a more neutral tone in article titles and wording.

The "given how things are going" statement reinforces why some of us spotted the article title, read the opening paragraph, and then began to think or say what many article commenters on FaceBook are saying (see my earlier post for two screenshot).  Some of us just want the tech media to back off the Twitter/Musk negatively and complaining, and let change play itself out in a free market, capitalistic system.  

If people jettison Twitter from their lives because they simply don't need it or dislike it, NOT because the tech media or TV news dislike Twitter and constantly influence them to dislike it, great!  But who lives in a bubble, totally ignorant of tech media negativity about Twitter? If you like or dislike something based on suggestions you receive from the news media at large, rather than from personal experience, well, that is mainly on you; but the media who feed that info to us has a responsibility too.

In the end, if people dislike Twitter, they will leave it.  But I contend they don't need to be subtly prodded to leave by "given how things are going" statements which exist as an indirect recommendation to Twitter users to consider deleting their Twitter account.  What I have written in this thread merely takes issue with that, and as per comments we see on Facebook, I am not alone.

foregoneconclusion said:

jdw said:

But CHANGE is better than what the old Twitter did.

How would you know what the old Twitter did? You're claiming you only used it a couple of times a year in another post in this thread. 

Yet more complaining/trolling of me.  Crazy.  Especially so when the answer to your own question is obvious.  How much usage does it take to know what the old Twitter did?  Please quantify that for us, because you obviously are suggesting a few uses per year is impossible for you to know anything about Twitter.  Too bad, because it isn't impossible for me.  Especially so when I read the tech news daily to supplement my usage.  No one can say they are in the dark about the new or old Twitter, and especially not someone who has used it before.

Stabitha_Christie said:

If that fallout is folks like that stop reading AppleInsider the it's a net win. But they won't stop,,,, you are still here. So I guess the fallout is having to listen to you complain that AppleInsider had the audacity to publish accurate information....... what exactly are you afraid of in this situation, why does knowledge frighten you?

Hilarious.  Here you are doing your own set of complaining, except your complaint is minor -- about me, a single guy in a forum.  My issue looks at the broader picture of all the silly media coverage of Musk/Twitter.  Just roll with the punches and enjoy the ride.  That's the entire point.  There's too much complaining about CHANGE.

And as to deleting accounts, I so no need.  I have a Twitter account I only use a couple times a year to enter a giveaway.  That's it.  Interestingly, I won something in the past too.  But despite my almost not needing Twitter at all, I see no need to waste my time deleting my account.  Maybe it will interest me one day more than it does today.  Even so, I wish Musk well.  It is his baby now, after all.  And the rest of the world who didn't put their money on the line or contribute to the creation of Twitter merely sit around complaining. Madness.

The upside to the AppleInsider on FaceBook is that Comments are never banned under Articles posted there, even when comments are banned under a particular article here.  And when you read them today, you can see that I am not alone in having a "what the...!" reaction to the "How to delete your Twitter account..." article, even if it was inspired by requests.  Consider the fallout...

I personally feel folks need to leave Musk alone.  He bought Twitter.  He can and SHOULD try things.  You win sometimes and you lose sometimes.  Not all decisions are good.  But CHANGE is better than what the old Twitter did.

I am mainly writing this post because I spotted a separate article here on AppleInsider today entitled "How to delete your Twitter account on iOS & the web."  I couldn't help but feel that was pushing the "We think Twitter is bad, and we think you should feel that way too" narrative.  And what do you know?  Comments are BANNED under that article, thereby giving credence to my suspicions.

The world has gone mad.  The very fact people spend so much time on social media is partly evidence of that.  Calm down.  Take a deep breath.  Look outside at the beautiful world instead of your mobile phone.  Think positive thoughts rather than be so critical.  There is a batter way.  Most people simply chose not to pursue it.