On 9/4/23 13:20, Shenoy N via Silklist wrote:
I have an aunt who is hard of hearing, but pretends she isn't. The
upshot of this is she keeps talking at a steady pace even when someone
else is trying to interrupt her. And when she is done talking, she sits
and looks as if she is interestedly listening to every word the other
person is saying, except she's not hearing a thing.
That, in my opinion, is how social media ought to be done.
Okay, I suppose I must chip in.
I don't concede that the "deaf aunt" approach is how it *ought* to be
done, but it's pretty clearly how social media *is* being done at present.
I've never been a big fan of social media. It's like drinking from a
fire-hose and hoping you catch the occasional fish.
My introduction to S-M activity was on a couple of Usenet fora, until
the kiddies swamped the signal to noise ratio. I was also active on a
Muck, which was very cool as the admins let the users build and
interact, there were no battles save of wits, and I was one of the admins.
Today, I'm on a few groups.io, where the specificity of the topics make
not only spam but off-topic posts stand out, and where moderators simply
plonk offenders (or lose all their good posters).
I still have a toe in Facebook, LinkedIn, and NextDoor, but my
enthusiasm and posting are fading fast, and I'll probably drop out of
all three when I leave for a seven-month world cruise next month.
It will take a lot to pull me back in to them.
Then of course there's Silk, but we all know that.
Cheers,
/ Bruce /
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