My Twitter data is gone except for the copy I kept on a flash drive. Since I’ve decided not to bother with Mastadon, I am as of this writing social media free. So the title of this post might be some kind of new slogan for my writing business. I do not consider YouTube a […]
My handle of @WriterDann is on my business cards and on the back covers of my books… But I am leaving Twitter today. I thought by now there would be a recovery. That someone would tell Musk to get knotted, take it over and then bring it back to respectability. I was wrong. He’s allowed […]
…..Elon Musk is an idiot. Maybe someone will buy Twitter from him where he takes a massive loss, and the new owners can restore it to some level of respectability. Maybe.
The curtain continues to stay held back on the overall harm Facebook continues to cause. There are mounting stories online of the hell and havoc from people being harassed and defamed online. Rather than being a tool for togetherness, it has become a weapon of worry and a digital missile of misinformation repeatedly exploding on […]
The only social media platform I use is toiling in trolls and toxicity. It’s profoundly disturbing to see social media be abused with weak enforcement of its’ own rules. To their credit, Twitter has stepped up far ahead of the pack compared to Facebook. It is becoming clearer however that the enforcement of the rules […]
“You are sensitive” I’ve received that commentary voiced as if it were an insult many times in my 39 years. Most occasions on the receiving end I’ve absorbed it as an insult. Never understood why. There have been countless occasions where I have said I would gladly give up my perceived sensitivity. Now it’s a […]
Folks, I’m happy to introduce you to Sudesna Ghosh. Sue is a great colleague, writer, hard worker and a compassionate animal advocate (among other things). When I approached her recently about writing a guest spot here she enthusiastically agreed. So buy her books, visit her site and read on further for her personal insights on social […]
“Everyone is annoyed. Because everyone appears annoying.” This was a recent summary of someone who holds a few social media platforms right in the palm of their hands. We all have someone in our life who is oversharing on one social media platform. Maybe that is on more than one. People have become their own […]
If you read or watch the news, you see the world painted as being in a very poor place. The positive stories being reported are few and far between. Expert social media users can curate their feed down to something that is more tolerable. This is one of the main reasons I only user Twitter. […]
Social Media is meant to be social. Otherwise it would just be thought of as an interactive computer game. It is meant to be a pleasant distraction. It is not meant to be a complete overwhelming distraction. Companies are looking to be the next Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat ad Instagram. They are looking to hit upon […]
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