Grandpa is just X’ing racist things again!
I don’t want to know anything about Grandpa’s racist excrement
Exrement racing? That’s gross.
“I remember when they were still called Tweets”
I love that this is basically a “back in my day” but disguised as a problem that zoomers will have. Old man shouts at cloud but instead one day zoomers will yell at water in the sky!
Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening. I recently heard someone my age lamenting the fact that kids these days don’t know what the save icon is because they don’t know what floppy disks are. I thought “Who gives a fuck?” Then later on a TV show I saw people using the verb “Tweet” and I thought “Well that’s going the way of the dodo” and here we are.
Fair enough. I’m Gen-X and I started complaining about “kids today” when I was about 15. I’ve always been an old man.
They’re gonna think Gen X refers to the generation of The Site Formerly Known As Twitter.
“The x formerly known as y” is a reference that won’t be understood by much of the youngest generation.
What’s ‘tweeting’?
It’s like Xing but with less racism.
It’s the sound a higher frequency range audio speaker makes
And nothing of value was lost. In fact, I’d almost prefer that anything you say on the internet not be a permanent fixture upon the internet. Leave it up for a year, or like 10 for politicians or historical figures - but nothing that can fit in a short-post like twitter is worth saving for long.
and deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don’t think so!
Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?
I even ‘favorite’-d a tweet instead of like back then…
Let’s just hope people will forget that shithole before they can get nostalgic!
If you Tweet on Twitter I vote messages on X be called X-crements.
