so much salt in the comments. why risk putting yourself in the world? why risk opening your mouth? i dunno, why do you leave your house? a lot of you probably dont really have to.

do you not want to engage in the world? are you not curious about other people, interested in heearing them think? does having direct access to incredibly high grade people not excite you for some reason? do you not want to grow and get better, do you value being safe & secure so much as to pass up exchanging & interacting with so many? where else do you go to engage in cereberal, vast conversations? do you have world class thinkers, developers, journalists & researchers that you pow-wow with regularly? are you entirely uninterested in seeing some of their lives, participating together with them?

getting to join the global consciousness has been an incredible privilege. having a place for my thoughts in public, being open to reflection, getting to share & hear others open streams of communication, getting to engage in all manners of debate & discovery... this is 100% the cyberspace i signed up for. when twitter comes up as a topic tbis grousing & moaning about it, how everything that happens there is all shit &, from only bad edgy people... do you not look in the mirror when you cast such bitter hateful negative accusations at all? do you not see yourself enacting the bad acts you decry? this is such enormous slanted bias, rules out, out of hand, the possibility of positive use & engagement.

is anyone at all interested in the absurdly high value, in the incredible all connectedness, in the ability to throw wide your doors of perception here? this moaning & whining about this incredible global public shared hypermedium, this Fear Uncertainty & Doubt about putting yourself into the world, none of it makes sense to me. opt in, go online, share, grow!

as for thr topic at hand, well. i do think a lot of people, frankly, dont have much to contribute. honing a sense of insight & perspective & exploration, or engaging deeply in some worldly endeavor; these are not totally common attributes, and you need something to bother to be tweeting about, something that has value. im not surprised so many opt for quiet. i want to think of how to make valuable so many's participation, how to refine & grow intellects in this online social program, but i havent come.up with a lot of strong ideas for it.

and sure here's definitely plenty of pointless blathering about, from people who would do better to go offline & become someone first, absolutely. personally i stayed in generally smaller circles where i was not as subject to the endless peanut gallery, and was able to use the tool effectively to understand who was adjacent to my circles & interesting & who was wasting everyonecs time. part of the whole experience of twitter is establishing better internal filters, getting quick & fast at finding value, honing in on the interesting, the gems, the things with hooks or shininess, amid a lot of kind of ambient/experiential bits of background information about your contaxts, a connectivity maybe not valuable very often but which does kind of stitch us a bit closer to those we come to regard as in our circles.