Subj : Re: Family vs Politics - Did
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Jan 15 2025 05:00 am

  Re: Re: Family vs Politics - Did
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sun Jan 12 2025 09:57 am

 > I'm torn - I see Facebook and Twitter as a Convenient Evil, need to find
 > a way to minimize the negativity and falsehood.
 >

I don't know why people keep using that stuff. I certainly don't know why people consider it convenient to begin with.

I have friends that use it because they have other friends who can only be reached over one of these platforms, but that does not mean they are convenient. That means somebody has decided they want to operate on it. It is like a web store that decides to use a particular payment processor and ends up causing customers to go through it. That is not convenient for the customer; that is convenient for the store.

Mainstream social media is a time burner designed to make people waste hours reading side content. If you are trying to get a message distributed over it you are wasting your time because it will get burried under a pile of other messages. It is like watching a TV station that has developed time compression technology so they can shove 15 minutes of stuff they want you to watch for every minute of stuff you actually want to watch, and somehow they manage to cram it all in a 30 seconds package.

Convenient stuff makes life easier. Social networks have never made my life easier.


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