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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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
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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Social media might the end of civilization as we know it. A bit like the black death, only more annoying! :)
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Well, at least we have cat memes — that helps balance it out a bit.
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