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Why People Say So Many Stupid Things on Twitter - C C - Sep 6, 2017
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/09/06/why_people_say_so_many_stupid_things_on_twitter.html
EXCERPT: [...] There's a simple explanation for this sorry cesspool. Social media puts humanity's most primitive thinking on display for all to see. That's not meant to be an insult, it's simply a matter of psychology. In his bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman makes the case that humans utilize two modes of thinking: system 1 and system 2. System 1 is the more primitive of the two, operating "automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control." On the other hand, system 2 is slow, deliberative, and controlled, used, for example, to fill out a tax form or to check the validity of a complex argument.m It's apparent which system is most prominently used on social media....
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RE: Why People Say So Many Stupid Things on Twitter - Magical Realist - Sep 6, 2017
Twitter is appropriately named---trivial impulsive toots expressing little more than the expulsion of pent up air.