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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Or maybe I'm just in denial.
I've heard too many people in real life who don't seem to know the most basic facts.
I'm just grateful to have surrounded myself with people online, for ~20 years, that make me doubt the legitimacy of the ignorance displayed in this post.
Seriously.
For good and bad, including the NSA and the l33tmobs: Thank you for not letting that shit inside my bubble.
I'd also like to thank myself for not being on Facebook, even though I understand ignorance is not restricted to that domain.