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Old Dec 10, 2019, 12:17 PM
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Never belonged to facebook or instagram or any of them. I have only belonged to three sort of social media sites--this, a biking one, and a headphone one. I just ditched the headphone one because the owner of the site censored one of my posts. It was asking members about their views on safety of wireless in-ear headphones. He was afraid (I believe) that it might anger some of his advertisers. He's right. It would have. Anyway, I have tens and tens of thousands of posts there and I just deleted my profile and signature, changed my byline to, The first amendment is the best amendment, changed my avatar to a burning black hole, and was done. Poof!

The biking one is unfortunately mostly men and there is just way too much testosterone. People constantly slamming other members, trying to humiliate them and make them appear clueless. It's just ridiculous and I may shut it down as well. Bunch of 6th graders. And I have no intention of ever returning to 6th grade.

PC is great because there is a level of decorum and sensitivity here that is quite refreshing. I just love PC.

As for all the others, you can have them. I realize I am in the minority here, but I believe "traditional" social media is doing a lot of harm to a lot of people. In the long run, I'm just not convinced it is necessarily such a great thing after all--unless your last name is Zuckerberg.
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