Yesterday I visited some Facebook walls that are public, and I was reminded again of why Facebook is a terrible fit for me. I expressed a mini tirade about it on Twitter (everything on Twitter being mini), mostly regarding my inability to understand why people who carp incessantly about other people’s bigotry–including hate language–turn around and do exactly the same thing to people whose beliefs and politics are different from theirs. This is not quantum physics. You think it’s wrong to be generalized, stereotyped, insulted, demeaned–then it’s wrong for YOU TO DO IT, TOO. And if you’re going to do it anyway, then you’ve lost any moral high ground in calling out other people, and you’ve lost some of your sympathetic audience. Including me.
I don’t miss the cacophony.
Conventional wisdom says that when someone talks politics on Twitter, they lose followers. Even though I hadn’t technically done so in my mini tirade, I did glance at my list of followers this morning, and none seem to have vanished. However, the number of people I follow had lessened by about twenty. Now I’m the only one who can make that choice, so it’s obviously a Twitter glitch, and other people are experiencing it, too. I’m sure it’ll all get worked out eventually. Meanwhile–boy, is my Twitter quiet.
Perhaps it would be more accurately termed “antisocial media”?
Good point!
Cacophony is such a wonderful word which is so seldom used. It’s almost too good to use to describe the vile vitriolic rants that have become the daily stock and trade of some people whose posts I once enjoyed reading.
So in the tradition of Lewis Carroll I gift you a new word, when the cacophony becomes too extreme think cacaophony instead. A symphony of chocolate always makes things seem better.
Yeah, there are many people I no longer read because if I want to be agitated or upset, I watch the news–which is just as likely to upset me by what is perceived as “news” as by relaying distressing things happening in the world.
So sad you are no longer with us on fb. Miss your presence!
I do understand your reasoning. I feel the same way some days.
I miss some friends from there, too! Thanks.