Angry People on Twitter

Infernal Racket

I use Twitter a good bit, don't have many followers which I'm told makes me a troll and also that I'm irrelevant because of it. No matter how many different wide and various tweet threads I read there is always an underlying anger among other tweeters. Even the most inane or even happy tweets bring out the anger in people. It's full of people who are constantly offended about everything and anything and I'm often left wondering do these people have any joy in their lives at all? I mean, I literally saw somebody being offended about a kid playing in the sand with their dog. I mean, wtf folks, is life not too short for this kind of ****e?

Your Face

You come across a bit angry yourself.

biko

Some people are like that all the time, Twitter is just another outlet for them to vent.

20Cent

Don't follow them then.

Infernal Racket

20Cent wrote: »

Don't follow them then.

It's not people I follow that I find angry, it's all the different commentators

dxhound2005

This is going to be a happy thread.

Infernal Racket

Your Face wrote: »

You come across a bit angry yourself.

Hahahahaha, really? What part of my post sounds angry to you?

dxhound2005

Gerry G wrote: »

Hahahahaha, really? What part of my post sounds angry to you?

It's underlying.

JeffKenna

Classic projection... You angry bastard.

SelmaHayek

The OP sounds easily offended.

Infernal Racket

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It's underlying.

You're trying to trigger me now but I won't allow it. I've taken way too many happy pills to react

Your Face

Gerry G wrote: »

Hahahahaha, really? What part of my post sounds angry to you?

The start, then the middle bit and also the end.

Infernal Racket

SelmaHayek wrote: »

The OP sounds easily offended.

I'm too old and too unbothered to be offended by bull****, especially Twitter bull****. Nice try though ÷)

dxhound2005

Gerry G wrote: »

I'm too old and too unbothered to be offended by bull****, especially Twitter bull****. Nice try though ÷)

I didn't think you were young.

Earthhorse

Twitter is one of the worst things to happen to the internet.

Terrible class of people using it.

SelmaHayek

Gerry G wrote: »

I'm too old and too unbothered to be offended by bull****, especially Twitter bull****. Nice try though ÷)

You seem bothered to be fair.

Mad_maxx

Appears to be overwhelmingly left wingers who populate twitter, which would explain the anger

Wayne Jarvis

Twitter is awful. Sometimes it resembles the IMHO section of Boards.ie.

JohnnyFlash

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Appears to be overwhelmingly left wingers who populate twitter, which would explain the anger

Nah, pal. It’s full of disillusioned and angry men in general. The tribal politics stuff is just a manifestation of the anger. There’s a lot of anger in the world at the moment. Not good.

Infernal Racket

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Nah, pal. It’s full of disillusioned and angry men in general. The tribal politics stuff is just a manifestation of the anger. There’s a lot of anger in the world at the moment. Not good.

Let's not forget the angry women, my Jaysus they come out of the woodwork at times. I also find that anyone who has a flag in their Twitter name are normally complete bellends

Mad_maxx

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Appears to be overwhelmingly left wingers who populate twitter, which would explain the anger

Nah, pal. It’s full of disillusioned and angry men in general. The tribal politics stuff is just a manifestation of the anger. There’s a lot of anger in the world at the moment. Not good.

Really?

No women there at all then?

Mad_maxx

Full of he/him **** as well

Infernal Racket

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Full of he/him **** as well

Oh yeah, anyone who tells you what their pronouns are in their Twitter bio cam **** right off too. They're the most angry

Yer Da sells Avon

Guy Person wrote: »

Twitter is awful. Sometimes it resembles the IMHO section of Boards.ie.

It depends who you follow or interact with. I just follow people who I find funny or interesting. Describing Twitter as 'awful' is like saying that books are awful just because some of them were written by Jordan Peterson.

Wayne Jarvis

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

It depends who you follow or interact with. I just follow people who I find funny or interesting.

All I ever see or hear of it is awful enough for me to not bother with, just like the IMHO section of this site.

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Describing Twitter as 'awful' is like saying that books are awful just because some of them were written by Jordan Peterson.

That is exactly to the word how I feel about books.

I had to stop using twitter because I found it overwhelming (imagine being too much of a snowflake for twitter?). Seriously, getting constant notifications on your phone that you're an awful person because of some minor disagreement? No thanks.

I remember during the 8th Amendment referendum someone tweeted an image of a Repeal sweater on a church altar. Like lots of others, I made a passing comment that it looked disrespectful and counterproductive. Cue a slew of mentions and DMs telling me to keep my Catholicism (!!) out of their campaign. Bizarre. I'm not Catholic and I was was always pro Repeal.

I only take a passing interest in Twitter anymore. If you have any nuanced views at all, Twitter is probably not the best platform.

PennyWiseClown

Ricky Gervais put it well, he said getting angry about what you see on Twitter is like getting angry about seeing whats written on public toilet walls - so can you imagine all the drivel written on every toilet wall in ireland nevermind the world ??!!

Naturally we dismiss it as nonsense, tougher to do with twitter.
Also the anonymous aspect of it makes people more reckless, if you could talk to these people face to face I'm sure (hope) they are more reasonable.