However, my cynical (Twitter-using) self generally agrees with this premise, even though the writer here may be blowing the conclusions out of proportion…haha.

Lack of studying and discipline isn’t necessarily stupidity; its laziness and addiction to the time-consuming website. It would be safer to say that Facebook gives you the “appearance” of being stupid if you let it distract you from your school work. At another perspective, I think people look stupid when they are constantly checking their phone for social updates even though they are out in the real world. (It’s rude to me too, but oh well)

Anyway, the “Twitter Makes You Dead Inside” bit made me laugh, though I think a connection could be drawn partly from the limiting lack of depth that only 140 characters can offer. It just might produce pretty much a shallow online culture…especially considering some of the “wisdom” on there is rooted in wordplay and not on truth. Not to mention the concentration on fickle and ephemeral things. Twitter helps to promote the trivial, from “Just got out of the shower ))” to “Ugh got so wasted but the partay wuz off teh chain!!!” among strangers.

Maybe watching thousands of strangers on Twitter whining incessantly numbs people to the whining concerns of people they actually care about?

Hmm…