I'm starting to think that getting run from Twitter was the single greatest compliment I've ever received. Because Glenn Reynolds has officially had it.
People seem to want more, and although there’s nothing duller than posting a screed on why you’re quitting a platform, here’s the gist: I’ve never liked Twitter even though I’ve used it. I was a late adopter, and with good reason. It’s the crystal meth of social media — addictive and destructive, yet simultaneously unsatisfying. When I’m off it I’m happier than when I’m on it. That it’s also being run by crappy SJW types who break their promises, to users, shareholders, and the government, of free speech is just the final reason. Why should I provide free content to people I don’t like, who hate me? I’m currently working on a book on social media, and I keep coming back to the point that Twitter is far and away the most socially destructive of the various platforms. So I decided to suspend them, as they are suspending others. At least I’m giving my reasons, which is more than they’ve done usually.
UPDATE: Yup. I've got less and less use for the damned thing.
4 comments:
Interesting that George Soros took potshots at facebook & Google last January, but seems to let Twitter be. Indeed, he is a vigorous Tweeter.
If you can get thrown off for noting that men have XY chromosomes and women have XX chromosomes, or for nothing at all, it's not worth it. Let them have their insane left-wing ghetto. And left-wingers are increasingly insane. 98 Dem House members recently signed a statement calling opposition to "transgender" rights "unscientific."
I'd like to see people go back to reading blogs. I keep hoping more of the old gang will turn up here. It was like a little community, and I miss knowing how some of them are doing.
Missing Sinner are you, Katherine? :)
Not him, ur. And Art Deco is telling people he knows more than they do at another site from time to time (TheNewNeo). But some of the others, I do miss.
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