I cannot imagine… You be well!
My good wife and I celebrated 50 this year! We are so, so lucky! We anticipate our futures but with reservations.
CRB
Unlike some on here I have a Facebook account.
I met friends in there daily and read stories and have connected with family.
It is a tool – like any other has to be managed.
Privacy went out in Windows 98…
Once you connect with all your friends and family, why not dump the platform and continue with Skype or Face time … Email and text …. Leave the scum who run those venues out of your life. It’s better that way.
They are your enemy unless you are a leftist bot echoing their nonsense.
I stayed in Facebook because I thought it was a way to stay connected to my children and grandchildren. It’s not. People don’t post their true selves on Facebook. They post fakes of themselves. You actually end up drifting away from them because what they are posting is not real. Then you meet in person and discover the reality. “My business is failing but I’m not going to put that on Facebook.” “We’re getting a divorce because he’s having an affair but I’m not going to put that on Facebook.” And those Facebook friends? How often has one of them blocked you, or vanished for no apparent reason and you didn’t notice for a couple of months? It’s not real. I got off Facebook entirely two years ago and it has made an enormous and very positive difference in my life. I have maintained real contact with the real people and the stress and worry about the superficial fake ones is gone.
I really DO NOT need to read about how some wanna be hipster has prepared quinoa in some unique way. People like that don’t “influence” me any more than a bad reviewer on Yelp. It’s all utter trash.
Because of Parler
Parler, Gab, Minds, MeWe, Rumble, Bitchute.
Lots of options.
Deleted Facebook years ago.
Twitter suspended my account after I tweeted Antifa needs to be slapped hard and often. Hypocrites.
Could care less if they reinstate it, but doubt they will. Deleted the app.
You can get restored ! Once you CONFESS, criminal!! to your blasphemy. And here we were worried about Sharia Law … pffft … Twitter Law, aka South of Market, EssFff Law is 10x worse.
Facebook kicked me out. I have no idea why — Facebook is not in the habit of explaining itself — but I rarely used the account, and then only in the most mundane manner.
Still, a strange company that rejects customers.
I recently got a three day suspension for making a silly joke about Canadian artists who move south to the US and how they’re all smart alecks (play on Alex Trebek). As a Canadian, living in the US, the joke was on me. I’m a hater!
Silly you … “artists” … are a protected group.
Most of the low level Facebook policia … identify … as “artists”. It’s what they were “doing” in mom’s basement before they landed the Fackquebook gig
I tried a Twitter account and a Facebook acct. I was banned from both in short order. I speak freely and honestly and that is not allowed. Social media is not good for healthy minds.
Parler is a better place to post a thought or opinion, if you must. Thing is … almost no one gives a shit about what you may have to say, except the left and they will use it to cancel you.
We are in ugly times, my pretties.
My best friends wife … mostly conservative, and someone you can only stand in small doses goes pretty much a week-on … week-off … Facebook. She’s constantly getting tossed for “hate speech” … such as reposting cartoons of Nancy Pelosi eating a frozen chocolate pigs head. Anything likely to amuse you and I … is now “hate speech”.
I’m not on social media, never was, never will be, unless subscribing to newsgroups on the old Usenet counts as such.
For some reason, my late father signed on with Farcebook. When I was finally able to log onto his e-mail account, his inbox was filled with all sorts of FB “friend” requests that had accumulated over the years. It took me 2 or 3 hours to delete them all.
I cancelled his account and now the inbox has a lot less rubbish in it.
Never had one never will
Gave up Facebook this past summer. Don’t miss it at all.
Haven’t been on Twitter for 5+ years.
Still maintain my LinkedIn account but getting close to deleting that as well.
Linked in has turned into a Fououououkkkk boook for adults
So just to be ironic, I posted this to Fascibook.
Blew away LinkedIn about six weeks ago, Facebook about four. Twitter I nuked within ten days of first sign-on, nine years ago; what an astoundingly toxic service that was and is. Still on Instagram, but only to maintain my photo portfolio. I terminate with extreme prejudice anyone I’m following that gets political. Keeps the signal-to-noise ratio reasonably high.
My wife’s cats had an Instagram account and they had nearly 5000 followers. Wastes too much of their time and has too many stupid ads from the Feds about how they are going to help my cats learn to balance their budget and how to be safe from COVID. Makes my blood boil seeing that waste of my tax dollars! My wife gave in to the cats and ordered a floppy fish cat toy advertised incessantly on Instagram and the cats are afraid of it. The cats were trying to talk her into buying one of those cute frilly cat dresses and she was weakening. I made put my foot down and made them quit. Bad enough I must live with two spoiled cats but cats in frilly dresses and tuxes????
I have Twitter and am aware of the negative side effects described in The Social Dilemma.
The thing I like about it is it provides the zeitgeist of culture in the moment. It also allows me a contextual ecosystem to work around the MSM.
Some really fascinating takes on there and lots of ratioing but I suspect it’s value is more negative than positive.
I am also much more radicalized as a result. (Not that that’s bad but I’d like to know I’m far-right because it’s correct and not because I’m being manipulated by algorithms)
Twitter is not near as good as it used to be. Most of the people I followed studiously have been banned.
Now it seems to be a lot of media agreeing with each other and trolls.
I would have liked to post a comment on that article, but unfortunately I don’t have a Google account to do so.
There must be some alternative that still let’s me moderate comments.
I obviously need to find it.
Speaking as a 46 yr old who’s never participated in social media or internet dating… it is very fascinating to hear the war stories. It is very difficult to relate, hard to ‘get it’.
All of that said, my daughter is pretty popular on social media. She went viral with a vid about a year ago as a result; she expressed to me that ‘even though she was a strong person’, negative comments started to weigh on her because of the sheer volume.
I am glad I don’t measure my worth on the number of Followers(or whatever) because it is stressful, and quite frankly, damaging to the psyche IMO. If gaining a 1000 followers makes you feel ‘good’… then surely when you lose 100 of those followers it most likely will make you feel ‘bad’. I have sympathy for those who feel them must maintain these accounts or provide content simply to maintain feeling ‘good’.
cheers
Somewhere about Jr. High … I learned to stop investing so much into what people thought of me. For every best friend … there seemed to be an avowed enemy. Meh. I learned how I actually had almost NO CONTROL over what other people said, did, or thought of me. Most of which always originated from too little information. i.e. … they didn’t know me.
Just notified by AdSense that ads not allowed on that post because “Dangerous or derogatory content.”
A what?
Never!
I have an old tiny flip phone, cable tv and you.
I like SDA.
Hope it doesn’t yanked and go away.
Would be sad!
If it does, Kate and Rob have my email #
Call me, maybe!
Ha!
Off-topic but sadly necessary:
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2021/01/07/leaving-home/
I cannot imagine… You be well!
My good wife and I celebrated 50 this year! We are so, so lucky! We anticipate our futures but with reservations.
CRB
Unlike some on here I have a Facebook account.
I met friends in there daily and read stories and have connected with family.
It is a tool – like any other has to be managed.
Privacy went out in Windows 98…
Once you connect with all your friends and family, why not dump the platform and continue with Skype or Face time … Email and text …. Leave the scum who run those venues out of your life. It’s better that way.
They are your enemy unless you are a leftist bot echoing their nonsense.
I stayed in Facebook because I thought it was a way to stay connected to my children and grandchildren. It’s not. People don’t post their true selves on Facebook. They post fakes of themselves. You actually end up drifting away from them because what they are posting is not real. Then you meet in person and discover the reality. “My business is failing but I’m not going to put that on Facebook.” “We’re getting a divorce because he’s having an affair but I’m not going to put that on Facebook.” And those Facebook friends? How often has one of them blocked you, or vanished for no apparent reason and you didn’t notice for a couple of months? It’s not real. I got off Facebook entirely two years ago and it has made an enormous and very positive difference in my life. I have maintained real contact with the real people and the stress and worry about the superficial fake ones is gone.
I really DO NOT need to read about how some wanna be hipster has prepared quinoa in some unique way. People like that don’t “influence” me any more than a bad reviewer on Yelp. It’s all utter trash.
Because of Parler
Parler, Gab, Minds, MeWe, Rumble, Bitchute.
Lots of options.
Deleted Facebook years ago.
Twitter suspended my account after I tweeted Antifa needs to be slapped hard and often. Hypocrites.
Could care less if they reinstate it, but doubt they will. Deleted the app.
You can get restored ! Once you CONFESS, criminal!! to your blasphemy. And here we were worried about Sharia Law … pffft … Twitter Law, aka South of Market, EssFff Law is 10x worse.
Facebook kicked me out. I have no idea why — Facebook is not in the habit of explaining itself — but I rarely used the account, and then only in the most mundane manner.
Still, a strange company that rejects customers.
I recently got a three day suspension for making a silly joke about Canadian artists who move south to the US and how they’re all smart alecks (play on Alex Trebek). As a Canadian, living in the US, the joke was on me. I’m a hater!
Silly you … “artists” … are a protected group.
Most of the low level Facebook policia … identify … as “artists”. It’s what they were “doing” in mom’s basement before they landed the Fackquebook gig
I tried a Twitter account and a Facebook acct. I was banned from both in short order. I speak freely and honestly and that is not allowed. Social media is not good for healthy minds.
Parler is a better place to post a thought or opinion, if you must. Thing is … almost no one gives a shit about what you may have to say, except the left and they will use it to cancel you.
We are in ugly times, my pretties.
My best friends wife … mostly conservative, and someone you can only stand in small doses goes pretty much a week-on … week-off … Facebook. She’s constantly getting tossed for “hate speech” … such as reposting cartoons of Nancy Pelosi eating a frozen chocolate pigs head. Anything likely to amuse you and I … is now “hate speech”.
I’m not on social media, never was, never will be, unless subscribing to newsgroups on the old Usenet counts as such.
For some reason, my late father signed on with Farcebook. When I was finally able to log onto his e-mail account, his inbox was filled with all sorts of FB “friend” requests that had accumulated over the years. It took me 2 or 3 hours to delete them all.
I cancelled his account and now the inbox has a lot less rubbish in it.
Never had one never will
Gave up Facebook this past summer. Don’t miss it at all.
Haven’t been on Twitter for 5+ years.
Still maintain my LinkedIn account but getting close to deleting that as well.
Linked in has turned into a Fououououkkkk boook for adults
So just to be ironic, I posted this to Fascibook.
Blew away LinkedIn about six weeks ago, Facebook about four. Twitter I nuked within ten days of first sign-on, nine years ago; what an astoundingly toxic service that was and is. Still on Instagram, but only to maintain my photo portfolio. I terminate with extreme prejudice anyone I’m following that gets political. Keeps the signal-to-noise ratio reasonably high.
My wife’s cats had an Instagram account and they had nearly 5000 followers. Wastes too much of their time and has too many stupid ads from the Feds about how they are going to help my cats learn to balance their budget and how to be safe from COVID. Makes my blood boil seeing that waste of my tax dollars! My wife gave in to the cats and ordered a floppy fish cat toy advertised incessantly on Instagram and the cats are afraid of it. The cats were trying to talk her into buying one of those cute frilly cat dresses and she was weakening. I made put my foot down and made them quit. Bad enough I must live with two spoiled cats but cats in frilly dresses and tuxes????
I have Twitter and am aware of the negative side effects described in The Social Dilemma.
The thing I like about it is it provides the zeitgeist of culture in the moment. It also allows me a contextual ecosystem to work around the MSM.
Some really fascinating takes on there and lots of ratioing but I suspect it’s value is more negative than positive.
I am also much more radicalized as a result. (Not that that’s bad but I’d like to know I’m far-right because it’s correct and not because I’m being manipulated by algorithms)
Twitter is not near as good as it used to be. Most of the people I followed studiously have been banned.
Now it seems to be a lot of media agreeing with each other and trolls.
I would have liked to post a comment on that article, but unfortunately I don’t have a Google account to do so.
There must be some alternative that still let’s me moderate comments.
I obviously need to find it.
Speaking as a 46 yr old who’s never participated in social media or internet dating… it is very fascinating to hear the war stories. It is very difficult to relate, hard to ‘get it’.
All of that said, my daughter is pretty popular on social media. She went viral with a vid about a year ago as a result; she expressed to me that ‘even though she was a strong person’, negative comments started to weigh on her because of the sheer volume.
I am glad I don’t measure my worth on the number of Followers(or whatever) because it is stressful, and quite frankly, damaging to the psyche IMO. If gaining a 1000 followers makes you feel ‘good’… then surely when you lose 100 of those followers it most likely will make you feel ‘bad’. I have sympathy for those who feel them must maintain these accounts or provide content simply to maintain feeling ‘good’.
cheers
Somewhere about Jr. High … I learned to stop investing so much into what people thought of me. For every best friend … there seemed to be an avowed enemy. Meh. I learned how I actually had almost NO CONTROL over what other people said, did, or thought of me. Most of which always originated from too little information. i.e. … they didn’t know me.
Just notified by AdSense that ads not allowed on that post because “Dangerous or derogatory content.”
A what?
Never!
I have an old tiny flip phone, cable tv and you.
I like SDA.
Hope it doesn’t yanked and go away.
Would be sad!
If it does, Kate and Rob have my email #
Call me, maybe!
Ha!