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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8571459">Sure, there is a lot of that on facebook, twitter and youtube for sure. That is one reason I don't really use twitter or facebook that often. I find twitter especially bad because it has the problem you are describing with facebook and youtube plus its character limit essentially favors quips over points (it is very highshool in terms of whose voice gets elevated). With youtube there are also a lot of issues, but I also find there are a lot of very good analysis and reviews. I think the key is to engage what you encounter. I don't mean comment. I mean don't use youtube or facebook as ways of getting your ideas. Bring your own ideas to the videos you watch and view with a degree of skepticism. But just as an example, I recently watched the Many Saints of Newark (which I greatly enjoyed). And there were lots of videos about 6 months ago negatively reviewing it on youtube and bringing in a lot of online cultural debate to attack the movie). But I have to say, watching it six months after the fact, a lot of the things people seemed to criticized, seemed much more organic to me within the film and not the problem people said it was. But I still found value in going back to many of those reviews and videos because there was still analysis in there that I could glean something from (and I found it interesting to see different peoples reactions, even if they didn't like it like I did: I at least was able to get a sense of what critics of the movie felt). When it comes to people saying "I never thought of it that way". To me that isn't super important. I do regular movie podcast discussions with friends and we often disagree. Sometimes I have been able to persuade people about my take on a movie, or gotten them to say "gee that makes sense actually". But I find people come in with their opinions, fully formed, and it is often unlikely you are going to get some to change their mind on whether they like a movie or not. What matters to me is people being able to respect differences of opinions about movies. I don't mind some robust and friendly debate. And I don't mind being playful about it either. But I do at least want to feel that my reasons for liking or not liking something are being understood and not cast in the worst possible light by the person I am talking with. I think one reason social media doesn't lend itself well to that is because it is often about point scoring. But if you stop worrying about points, and stop keeping score, I find that problem largely evaporates (at least for me it has).</blockquote>

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