And so GAF produces yet another highly educated McDonald's employee.
Maybe professionals should stay off of twitter. The incidence of people slaying themselves professionally is rising exponentially. It's like douche-bag Darwinism at work.
It's fucking fantastic. Twitter makes for an excellent aggregator of public stupidity conveyed in slices of 140 characters; it amusingly and quite consistently tends to remove any filter many people may have between their brains and their fingers.
People type shit out lazily and send it without even once considering the ramifications of putting something permanent out for the world to see. They seem to think they're sending these tweets into some void where it'll disappear into the ether. They have seemingly no idea that Twitter is a public forum, or if they do, they're clearly confused about the word "public."
It's fairly amazing how often this sort of thing happens, and certainly not just in the gaming industry (many if not most companies have enacted strict rules regarding Twitter usage by employees, though probably not effective enough in many cases, looking at MS). Twitter induces myopia like nothing I've seen, and induces aggressiveness (whether passive or outward) and a propensity to be "edgy," well, like the Internet does.
Twitter is an excellent - almost unbeatable - way to spread succinct nuggets of information to very large numbers of people in a very quick fashion. But for general person-to-person communication, it's a disastrous thing. I've never "read" a Twitter argument that didn't make both sides appear idiotic, regardless of how intelligent and otherwise articulate they may be.
