I made 7 Facebook posts in 2017. My only New Year's resolution - because let's face it, I'm almost perfect - is to make no Facebook posts in 2018.
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And then in 2019, if I live that long, which given advancing levels of decrepitude seems doubtful, I'll vow to stop posting on Twitter.
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Actually everybody ought to stop posting on Twitter, because it's a viciously toxic medium, and there comes a point where continuing to participate means complicity.
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meh. I’m still of the mind that the problem is not the medium per se, but humans. There may be a volume effect here, but we see the same behaviours elsewhere online and offline.
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Well, it's definitely humans. But Twitter is perfectly designed for the mobilization of anonymous mobs, where each mob member is able to interact directly with the target of the mob. So I think it's both.
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Good point. It’s tricky balance: how do you curtail mobs and avoid silos/echo chambers? Social media is odd, too, in that much of it is chit chat, of a kind that would normally be completely ephemeral, made quasi-permanent and visible to the world. Strange & counterintuitive.
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It may not be possible, given, as you say, the character of human beings is part of the story here. Yes, ephemeral, but because of permanence can be weaponized (by others) to take people down years after the event.
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Exactly.
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