As a data scientist and an activist I am on the cusp of deactivating all of my social media accounts, reverting to written communications in all but a handful of relationships, and leaving the country. This is not hyperbole.
-
-
I will probably keep my Twitter active, of course. Everything I do here is public and I intend for it to be that way.
Show this thread -
My facebook is for closer personal relationships only with people I know. I use it less and less anyways. I use Gab to blather about sports, but I can live without that.
Show this thread -
This is the post that tipped me over the edge:https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/978658249921781761 …
Show this thread -
Social media is becoming nothing but a vector of endless harassment. And in the past week or so I have discovered that the harassment I was seeing was just the public face of a much deeper plot to perpetrate violence against me.
Show this thread -
I did download my FB data. It is as unremarkable as my 10+ years of use of that site. It does not contain my call history or anything else. But I am done giving myself over to an unregulated surveillance system.
Show this thread -
I'm going to try to make more calls, write more letters, and spend more time in the world, playing D&D, playing hockey, taking walks, riding my bike, learning languages and math and doing all those things.
Show this thread -
If I, a Senior Data Scientist and a non-violent activist, am deeply troubled by this, you should be, too.
Show this thread -
There's something that makes me sad, though. My wife and I have developed a communication language that involves Messenger Stickers and we'd send them to each other dozens of times a day. It was a cute way of telling each other how we felt. That's gone now. And I'm sad.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
This is why I use a second device for fb + Twitter + messenger...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I dumped Facebook a while ago...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.