Social Media Irritations

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There are so many times I read Tumblr threads where people are arguing and I end up feeling angry at every single person in that reblog chain plus OP.  I hate arguments where everyone involved seems to just be trying to preach to the choir and so doesn't even attempt to think through what they're saying.  Also when people do the 'well look here's an argument against my argument that's badly constructed, all arguments against my argument ergo must be exactly like this one'.  I hate that so much. So much.

ramble-tags: so glad I at least don't post on Tumblr anymore, even if I couldn't quite bring myself to delete, I mean, even if I did, realistically I'd still be checking a number of posts there, of course there are plenty of bad arguments on other social media but in general it doesn't allow for quite the same perfect storm of people who hate each other yelling at each other with the equivalent of loudspeakers, in a crowded street