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catsittingstill) wrote2022-08-02 04:56 pm
catsittingstill) wrote2022-08-02 04:56 pm
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I have spent way too much of the day poking the internet, and specifically getting involved in twitter and FB fights.
Republicans are being awful to one of my friends who is running for County Commission and it makes me mad. Neo-Nazis are orchestrating a pile-on on one of the folks I followed on Twitter and that makes me mad.
I am beginning to wonder if social media was, on balance, a colossal mistake, both for society at large and for me personally. But is it possible to undo or even meaningfully resist the harm social media does by coordinating and extreme-izing Republicans without using social media myself?
If it weren’t for social media I’d never have learned about trans people. I’d never have heard of the Women’s March, and the Women’s March probably wouldn’t have happened. I likely would not have assisted in GOTV efforts in nearby cities and states. I’d have very little contact with fellow filkers.
I dunno
Republicans are being awful to one of my friends who is running for County Commission and it makes me mad. Neo-Nazis are orchestrating a pile-on on one of the folks I followed on Twitter and that makes me mad.
I am beginning to wonder if social media was, on balance, a colossal mistake, both for society at large and for me personally. But is it possible to undo or even meaningfully resist the harm social media does by coordinating and extreme-izing Republicans without using social media myself?
If it weren’t for social media I’d never have learned about trans people. I’d never have heard of the Women’s March, and the Women’s March probably wouldn’t have happened. I likely would not have assisted in GOTV efforts in nearby cities and states. I’d have very little contact with fellow filkers.
I dunno