>>43677
The full link for the second story:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/08/how-paris-became-obsessed-with-the-hamburger.html

>>43677
>The specialty had triggered a flood of critical comments on social media against the burger place
At some point, people need to stop listening to social media for feedback. Fucking hell, the most dissatisfied people are always the most vocal.

I'm convinced this is at least partly why you see businesses tailoring their content, games, tv shows, movies etc to this madness.

Social media analytics were a mistake.

>The restaurant was forced to close due to 'concrete' threats from Erdogan supporters, but it plans to re-open
>At the same time, he made it clear that he plans to continue to fight for the freedom of opinion in Turkey, saying he would not be "gagged by enemies of democracy, of the rule of law, and of civil rights."
At least there's that.

>>43677
BURG'D
YOU FROGS WILL JOIN THE U.S.
JOIN US

>>43702
It's not just the whiners though. The average person is lazy as fuck when it comes to giving a short opinion or recommendation. Social media wouldn't be such a shitshow if happy fans and the like gave their opinion on things. I almost think we as a society let the internet go to shit, because we didn't want to hurt somebody's feefees. Some people have terrible opinions, and they should be berated or ostracized for it.

>>43762
>Social media wouldn't be such a shitshow if happy fans and the like gave their opinion on things.
Yeah this is what I'm saying. The people who actually comment the most seem to be the people who are perpetually dissatisfied. I think, however, the object lesson is that feedback like this should be met with a lot of skepticism by any business.

re internet going to shit, it has paradoxically made people more isolated instead of bringing them together. People can, and it seems often do, choose to only share ideas with their own insular communities and filter out anything that challenges them. Their group becomes an echo chamber, which leaves them ill-prepared when they go to university or anywhere else in the outside liberal world and are confronted by a spectrum of ideas, many of them contradicting their own.

I'm starting to believe that the spergy, shit-talking, foul-mouthed children who play competitive online games are perhaps the last hope for this latest generation of kids raised on the internet--their constant abusive rants and exposure to offense will leave them pretty thick skinned.

>Some people have terrible opinions, and they should be berated or ostracized for it.
I'm convinced everyone should be exposed to more mindless offense and vitriol in their formative years, regardless of their opinions; it's character building.

>>43769
I need to pay more attention to what a write. This reads terribly.

>>43769
>I'm convinced everyone should be exposed to more mindless offense and vitriol in their formative years, regardless of their opinions; it's character building.

Fellow Aussie?

>>43772
Nah, just an old american.

>>43775
Sadly that tradition is slowly being lost here too

>>43771
Agreed, but you got your point across.

>>43769
>I'm starting to believe that the spergy, shit-talking, foul-mouthed children who play competitive online games are perhaps the last hope for this latest generation of kids raised on the internet--their constant abusive rants and exposure to offense will leave them pretty thick skinned.
Man, maybe you're right.
I have to be a better uncle.