Fucking social media

[diandrahollman]

I have always favored Facebook over other forms of social media mainly because it's where the people I know in real life are. Also because it is easier to control what you post and who sees it. Not that Twitter doesn't have it's uses, namely the ability to scream at people about politics without them being able to track you down. I basically don't participate in the fandom side of Twitter anymore because that ugly bleeds over, like, A LOT, and I want fandom to be an ESCAPE, not more of the same fighting. This same sentiment goes double for Tumblr.

Lately, I have been censoring myself on Facebook a lot more though since there are at least two people who report everything I say to my mother. There used to be a third, but one was easily unfriended as I suspect she is a Trump supporter. Today I posted something tentatively worded to convey my fears about the coronavirus without prompting worried phone calls and got a...I want to say humbling...response reminding me that, to the scientific community at least, I am just a nameless statistic.

So I guess I will be spending less time there for the forseeable future too. I seriously wish this place was as active as Livejournal once was.

Comments

[lynnenne]

Yeah, pretty much all the social media sites are cesspools right now... more so than usual.