It's the mods* I feel sorry for...
* moderators, not the boomer-era subculture
Creep
But it's like anywhere - here on CC, Twitter, the pub, church, the local cycling club. There's informed chats, there's fun chats and there's rubbish chats. You have to pick the people you interact with and you have to think about what you post. You can choose to post dribble and hand out with pornbots or you can interact in a meaningful way with real people. When Mrs Bruce got cancer, she linked with another cancer sufferer on Twitter, shared stories and supported each other. They met in real life after their chemo and decided to write a book together on their experience of cancer. It's now a best seller on Amazon.
Social media doesn't have to involve a sad pointless waste of human life and talent.......
Exactly, its like any other media, or resource, you take from it, and contribute as you see fit, as a discerning adult.
You see all kinds of nonsense articles and statements for instance about how Instagram is all just trout pout selfies, and narcissistic, ripped young men, flexing.
Which is nonsense, I follow hundreds of interesting individuals, and organisations on there, I've connected with loads of other ppl who share my interests.
There's everything on there from politics, to pastry chefs, farmers, yogis, tree experts, embroideries, new music, colonial history, timber framers, you name it. Its there.
And I've got hundreds of followers who are variously interested in what I do.
I've made friends, and good contacts all around the world, found out about stuff I'd never have known was going on otherwise, and even gained new customers for my real life businesses from it.
And promoted our small farm union.
I also use it as a day to day, kind of diary, and notebook / memory aid - having been on there for about five years I can look back and check when I did stuff, pumpkin harvest, took a train to France, or whatever.
I don't know why folks get so paranoid about it all - very few of us are that 'fascinating' to the authorities, nor so gullible to persuasion either
Unless yr doing something really dodgy, or are highly susceptible to being marketed at.
I dont see the problem.
Just pick and choose - it's not that hard
otherwise it becomes a cleverly disguised load of insults.
