On and off the last couple of weeks, I’ve been having an online discussion with another atheist blogger concerning what seemed to me a sudden decline of viewership over several weeks the summer. It was explained to me that, at least for him, it was normal and that during peak summer months, he too has seen a decline in views.
I’ve written about social media a bit here and I pretty much have the same opinion of it as I always have: It’s not a place I want to hang out on much because of the type of people that seem to spend their entire day there complaining about one thing or another. Or, as with a few people, I seem to get to know everything they do, every moment of their day and I really don’t need to know that much about someone I’ve never met in person.
Is it time for all of us to take a second look at social media and how we all use it? Maybe. I’ve been on Twitter since 2011 and although I left for a while (because I became an addict) I still find these platforms as useful. I see a lot of diverse opinions about everything political and social and to be honest, even though I may not agree with a particular persons take on something, it makes me stop and think.
Heh. It seems lately I start to write on a topic and then a few paragraphs in, decide that I really don’t want to write on that particular subject. Sometimes it’s because I can’t really decide where I want to go with it, but most of the time, it just seems like we’ve all seen this again and again and as an atheist, I’d like to find something new to discuss.
I originally had a different subject to publish today. I decided not to because I know that what I had written would come across as inflammatory to some and that wasn’t my original intention. Sometimes though, a person has to speak plainly and I think that many of us do not do that on a regular basis.
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