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    "Mainly because no one who hates Twitter has a good argument about why SBT is so different"

    SBT is a conversation. At times in the past we have had some great conversations in SBT, free from the interjections of the greater QBN community. Granted that has declined now but there was a sort of glorious moment for a while. SBT is an opportunity to share jokes, in-jokes, memes, bitch about things without it turning into all out verbal war, and a place to just dump thoughts and comments free from any need to validate them. SBT for most of us is just a speakeasy, not to be scrutinised too closely. That it is SBT is almost irrelevant, it could just be a bunch of people emailing each other, but the mechanics of QBN make it fairly convenient to catch up, refer back, add links, co-ordinate japes etc.

    Twitter is, as far as I can make out, a post-modern thought publisher, highlighting (to my mind) how inane and mediocre most of our ongoing functional thoughts are. It doesn't offer a means for in-depth dialogue, it appeals to a generation who have less to say, and no grasp of the nuances of articulation. Its enough to cut out the rich bridgework of the conversational style and just deliver buzzwords. Language evolution is always moving towards greater economy. Less words, less letters per word. Hyphenating phrases as part of the process of welding them together into new single words that are more efficient than the two or three they replace. Likewsie Twitter is about economy of words... for me its too extreme, but then I'm really keen on longer comments.

    I'm not dissing Twitter, but for someone as verbose as me it just seems spasticated and peurile... I fully accept that I am a dinosaur in a modern world though. I prefer dialogue to soundbites so for me something like QBN, or SBT if you will, is a suitable means to an end.

    Its the difference between a moped and a truck. I can't deliver my thoughts on a moped whereas other may not feel they need a vast truck to deliver theirs.

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    • huzzah!!locustsloth
    • as usual. yours is the most apt and well worded answer7point34
    • you fucking dinosaur7point34
    • I made it as long as I could to addle jaline's branes. hahahaHorp
    • FUCK YOU I'm not reading all this. Can you just tweet it or something?dropdown
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