My pet peeve is when journalists refer to Twitter as...

My pet peeve is when journalists refer to Twitter as the Internet because:

1. Regular people rarely use Twitter
2. Technically-inclined people don't prefer Twitter
3. Other social media services, such as Reddit, have as much usage as Twitter
4. Twitter isn't even where most Internet memes are generated

Dear journalists, if you believe Twitter is representative of the Internet, it's because you're stuck in an echo chamber. Get off Twitter. Go use the actual Internet for once.

Pic is relevant.

Like 29 May 2022 at 19:23 | Open on mastodon.social

3 comments

Christopher Snowhill

@atomicpoet My entire extended family doesn't seem to use the Internet beyond Facebook. Makes me so glad I never had to worry about coming out anywhere else and not Facebook, since it means I never have to come out to the rest of my family. If any of them are clever enough to find me elsewhere, they'll probably understand why, too.

29 May 2022 at 19:33 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣

@atomicpoet They seems to not understand "The Internet" is a network, not a person or Skynet. It doesn't "react" to anything… By the way, "web" and "Internet" are two different things. Social media be it twitter or something else, is just a small part of the web. It is not and can't be "the Internet".

29 May 2022 at 19:40 | Open on mamot.fr

Computer Chronicles Revisited

@atomicpoet I will say, the nicest thing about moving from the birdsite to Mastodon has been the lack of pundits on the latter.

29 May 2022 at 19:55 | Open on mastodon.social