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Before the introduction of the Facebook news feed and the short-lived Twitter public timeline, I don't recall anyone ever insisting on their right to everyone else's attention span when it came to their shitty opinions.
It's already bad enough that people willingly read mine.
@blueminder Nah, this goes way back.
Web forums, IRC, mailing lists, chatrooms, BBS systems - I'm sure into pre-digital spaces where we tried to exclude toxic encroachment.
Just ... it's not new.
@emdeesee Yeah, I'm with you. I recall many bulletin boards dealing with this in my youth.
Twitter and FB timelines seem like far more of a captive audience, since everyone is sort of screaming into the same chamber at that point.
@blueminder I think it was harder for whiners to whine publicly about it though, before social media.