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Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:22 PM Mar 2017

solely devoted to this inexplicable fascination with this weird thing called "Twitter" that the politicians of the 21st century seemed to have.

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It's embarrassing that future generations will end up reading chapters in their history textbooks (Original Post) Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 OP

I don't think so melman Mar 2017 #1

Not a problem............ MyOwnPeace Mar 2017 #2

(7,681 posts)

1. I don't think so

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:27 PM

Mar 2017

Yes Trump is an idiot and tweets idiotic things, but that doesn't mean twitter itself is bad and stupid.

It's actually a pretty great thing.

(960 posts)

3. No man, trust me, it's gonna look maaad silly 100 years from now. It still looked silly 8 years ago.

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:39 PM

Mar 2017

Everyone will be using whatever the thing that replaces the thing that replaces the thing that replaces Twitter is.

(16,925 posts)

2. Not a problem............

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:27 PM

Mar 2017

the Department of Ed. under Secretary DeVos will make sure the books only have wonderful Alternative Facts in them!

(17,235 posts)

4. I can hear it now: "What the hell were are ancestors doing by tweeting on twitter?"

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:40 PM

Mar 2017