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  • September 11, 2014 at 2:38 pm #915853
    Subby
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    I know I shouldn’t do this to myself, but I do. I follow @BikeHatersSuck and @BikeHomicides on twitter. As such, I regularly see retweets of people saying absolutely TERRIBLE things about cyclists. Mostly I read and sigh. Sometimes I get INSANELY PISSED and respond as such. I end up feeling guilty though, so lately I have tried to be more reasonable. Here is a recent example:

    [IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6605&stc=1[/IMG]

    Kind of soul crushing.

    I think the reason I stick around is I see that some people DO change. A while back @BikeSnobNYC tweeted about a video a woman had made advocating running down cyclists. The video got a decent amount of media attention and the woman ended up having a pretty touching epiphany about cycling. Yay positive social media justice!

    Anyway – I follow a lot of positive pro-cycling folks on twitter (@I_AM_DIRT, @gregbilling, etc…) so that helps. I don’t know why it bothers me so much that there are people out there that are like that woman in the tweet above.

    /ramble

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  • September 11, 2014 at 2:46 pm #1009591
    MattAune
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    So I got sucked in and replied. Then she favorites my tweet. Wait what?

    She also goes on a tangent about motorcycles. very weird person.

    September 11, 2014 at 2:53 pm #1009593
    rcannon100
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    September 11, 2014 at 2:54 pm #1009594
    jrenaut
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    Life is too short to follow idiots on Twitter.

    September 11, 2014 at 3:16 pm #1009598
    americancyclo
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    @Subby 94235 wrote:

    [IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6605&stc=1[/IMG]

    I had no idea you were Subby until now, Chris.

    September 11, 2014 at 3:26 pm #1009600
    creadinger
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    @jrenaut 94239 wrote:

    Life is too short to follow idiots on Twitter.

    [un-following jrenaut on twitter]…. ;)

    Like Subby, I have in the past followed idiots on twitter just for those times I was in the mood to get in a fight… But I didn’t have the stamina to deal. Life is indeed too short.

    September 11, 2014 at 3:35 pm #1009601
    Subby
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    @americancyclo 94243 wrote:

    I had no idea you were Subby until now, Chris.

    Neither did I!

    :D

    September 11, 2014 at 3:40 pm #1009602
    jrenaut
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    @creadinger 94245 wrote:

    [un-following jrenaut on twitter]…. ;)

    I’m not jrenaut on Twitter so there.

    September 11, 2014 at 4:25 pm #1009608
    jabberwocky
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    The internet is full of mouthy idiots. Best not to pay attention to them IME.

    September 11, 2014 at 4:33 pm #1009610
    lordofthemark
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    I don’t do twitter. The only place (other than local publicaitions) where I really follow bike hatred is on BikeSnob, where I don’t have to respond, because BS already has – and usually left me laughing.

    September 11, 2014 at 6:16 pm #1009623
    TwoWheelsDC
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    My social media feeds are carefully crafted to ensure that I only receive information that confirms my pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and hypotheses.

    September 11, 2014 at 7:59 pm #1009636
    rcannon100
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    My social media feeds are carefully crafted to ensure that I bombard my “friends” with persistent political demagoguery, ramming my personal political persuasions down their perspectives ~ in a way I dare not in person ~ because I am assured this is what my “friends” desire – and by resiliently resharing what [Foxnews, Daily Show, HuffPo, Some Deranged Scientist, or Fergie] thinks ~ ~ ~ I am assured I am doing my part to make the world a better place.

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    September 12, 2014 at 3:12 am #1009659
    PotomacCyclist
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    The WashCycle occasionally posts about certain rabid bike haters from time to time. That’s about the only instance when I’ll think about this.

    There are a lot of not-so-pleasant people out there, and not just on the bike hating front. Terrorists, murderers, racists, pedophiles, extremists and just plain jerks. I know they’re out there and it’s not good to ignore them completely. But the news seems to put an overemphasis on negative stories and people, so most of us get plenty of exposure to that sort of thing. No need to add to that in my own personal choices about social media, forums and websites. It’s possible to get overwhelmed by the hatred and negativity from any of those areas. That only leads to frustration, anger and, in extreme cases, despair, which doesn’t really help matters. If I read the drivel from rabid bike haters, I might get so discouraged that I would be afraid to ride outdoors. Fortunately, not everyone is as out there as the extremists are.

    September 12, 2014 at 1:42 pm #1009674
    baiskeli
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    @PotomacCyclist 94306 wrote:

    Terrorists, murderers, racists, pedophiles, extremists and just plain jerks.

    What’s wrong with pedophiles? I love to pedal.

    September 12, 2014 at 2:16 pm #1009677
    dasgeh
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    I just got back from the awesome Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place (#walkbikeplace) and FutureBike (#futurebike) conferences in Pittsburgh. Lots on the twitterverse from there. I was tweeting as @dasgeh, if you’d like to see the highlights from my perspective (though I missed the first day ;-(

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