The Real Network

You may recall that I’ve mentioned that I really enjoy watching YouTube lately. Well, I think I said I had recently become addicted to the channel, and that’s still true. I believe it’s because that instead of watching cop, fire, or medical shows – which is what watching broadcast television consists of today – this is all original content. And by original I mean on pretty much any subject anyone can think of at anytime.

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YouTube Can be Annoying

I think I’ve mentioned I’m a bit of a YouTube addict these days. I used to use it sparingly to look up DIY repairs and other tasks with which I thought I needed assistance. Good enough for that and that’s about all. Then a friend told me that there was a lot more than “fix it” videos out there and I began to peruse. My friend understated, I believe.

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Screen Blind

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

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

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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