Comments on: it’s time for me to move away from social media/2023/07/12/its-time-for-me-to-move-away-from-social-media/various and sundry notionsThu, 13 Jul 2023 13:17:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Marc Beebe/2023/07/12/its-time-for-me-to-move-away-from-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1768Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:17:20 +0000/?p=11218#comment-1768In reply to whbeebe.

Twitter got some bad press here when their new posting limits stopped the government from informing people on critical updates of the wildfire situation (specifically road closures and alternate routes). Thus is managed to fail to do one of the few things it was good for. Brilliant.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2023/07/12/its-time-for-me-to-move-away-from-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1767Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:42:41 +0000/?p=11218#comment-1767In reply to Marc Beebe.

At this point in time I have absolutely no desire to create a Threads account. I’ll do it if and only if I need to follow some critical news source, defined as critical to my health and wellbeing. But Instagram has turned into a feed of overwhelming ads and other Instagram users I don’t follow. The few I wish to follow get so overwhelmed I miss the ability to catch up. Based on my now very limited Instagram experience I can’t ever see me signing up for Threads.

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]]>By: Marc Beebe/2023/07/12/its-time-for-me-to-move-away-from-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1766Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:09:54 +0000/?p=11218#comment-1766Age tends to instil the sense that your time is short and precious – too precious to be wasted on fools. There was a news article I saw the other day speculating that ‘Threads’ would be the death of Twitter, and I could not help but think that the latter has been committing slow suicide over the years.
Social Media is just so much unrealized potential. It’s as though we invented fire and used it to burn down our homes instead of warming them.

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