I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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However, languages are also culturally unifying and changing the language could disrupt the culture.
But then, there are those words, such as "terrific" that have evolved to mean another thing. Maybe we are taking the word "terrific" and changing it as slang. Since "bad" means "good" and "sick" or "ill" can also mean "good".
I hate it when people delete their comments instead of owning up to them.... referring to Meli mispoken here, I was blocked, comments not deleted :)