That is the very last thing that I needed to say, or do…
For me, there’s no place like Twitter. There’s the engagement and the power to comply with traits. The platform additionally presents the only method to work together with others. It’s not as showy as Instagram, or a spot for the parents like Fb. Whereas my spouse will love me saying this, however I believe I’ve had sufficient of the chook. The reasoning is straightforward. I don’t like the place the corporate is headed underneath its new proprietor, Elon Musk. From how he’s handled Twitter’s employees, to an out-in-the-open bias for views and social media accounts that I discover abhorrent (from antisemitism to transphobia, fascism and xenophobia), my head tells me to get the heck off of Twitter. I wish to be on social media for dialogue and debate, but additionally for civility and a function that goes past hating one other group of individuals. The final straw for me was concentrating on/banning public servants and journalists who don’t share the Twitter CEO’s worldview (I solely want I may give my Mannequin Y automobile again).
My household will probably be completely satisfied to learn this (much less social media scrolling), however I’ll be sticking to LinkedIn for now and exploring new on-line locations that don’t require me to placed on a headset and lose my legs. I’ll be leaving my Twitter account dormant, within the naïve hope that Twitter takes a distinct, extra inclusive route. In any other case, I’ll be staying off the positioning. I don’t wish to see that stage of toxicity, and I really feel that we’ve given Elon Musk sufficient of our consideration and time (I actually don’t need him to earn money off of my presence and exercise on Twitter, given what he’s doing to the platform). Proper, sufficient of this publish and right here’s to much less social media and extra actual world stuff. I’m off to do some gardening with the spouse!
