Social Media

Screen Blind

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I remember thinking, when I first joined Twitter (X) some years back, about how much personal information people post about their personal lives. Not just themselves, but their families – including their children – to the degree I got to know some of these people, that I’d never met and still haven’t, more than my own. family. That was very strange to me t the time and after all of these years, it still seems that way to me today. Why would anyone want to post their most intimate details of their lives to thousands (millions?) of complete strangers?

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Social Media Doesn’t Belong in the Office

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I’m always amazed by people whose entire existence seems to be conditioned on their popularity in social media. It’s true. You know who I am talking about.Just look around you workplace right now (if you work indoors, of course) and count the number of people that have some social media tab (or two) open on their browser but claim they’re just skimming the page noe nf gsin when actuslly, their work sits while they are engaged in something on X, Facebook, even TikTok. Some companies have even resorted to blocking their employees using social media on company time, on the company’s network.

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Let Him Go

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It’s time for someone to say it, just in case anyone is unsure. Charlie Kirk is dead. There. I said it. It’s horrible what happened to him and hopefully, his murderer will see justice. The reason I’m saying this now is from shear exhaustion from seeing all of the posts abut him or his widow. I don’t care about what Erika is doing or might do and I’m vertain that Charlie is not looking down on us from heaven.

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Its Time for the Fifty to Step In

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It may be that the thing many have been discussing for some years now, regulating ”Big Tech”, is about to begin. I don’t think a federal solution is required. In fact, the feds becoming involved would only gum things u and leave whatever new law more fungible than the last because those legislators in Washington are far more willing to compromise with those same companies because those legislators are more flexible (ca-ching!) toward big business than the average state.

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Monopolists FAIL to Kill Parler

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So, I was perusing Twitter, and Parler last evening, just after posting this blog post where I discussed Apple and Googles decision to not carry the Parler app anymore and that I had read that Amazon, who hosts Parler on their servers, was going to shut the service down. I noticed tweets from various news sources that indeed, Amazon had shut off Parler. Well, no, they had not and I was surprised how someone would publish obvious fake news when all anyone had to do was access the site to see it was still up. There was even a message from the Parler CEO that this was going to happen, but not until Sunday. Okay. So this morning, the site is still up and now I’m reading it will be Sunday night,. Again, okay. It looks like Parler will have another host though and be back up and running soon (tomorrow). Good.

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