The Social Media Trap

What is one to make of the Social Media Trap? I've spent more time on it in the past few years and I can't say that it has been especially good for me. I've reached a few readers (many still love Satan's Plea the most) and that has been great for my health as a writer, but really, I think it has been worse than it has been good. Twitter can lead to some good sources, can lead to something like a decent discussion, but Imma be real: it's really really bad over all. Mainly it's a loudspeaker for those who can use it as such. This is great, but it means that it's best to push in a singular direction and not to discuss.
Sure, one never knows if the person you're talking to is real, but in a blog and comment scene it's kinda easier (so far) to tell if the person is real or not. Of course a bunch of trolls can always throw off a comment section, but good moderation is always needed. Barring that, the blog is still the superior form for human thought. Human discussion.
Here is an example of just such a thing. Of course it suffers from many discussions on the internet, (or many discussions involving humans) whereby nothing is well defined and people are kinda arguing past each other. But it's a hundred times better than what you'll find on social media (some might say that Facebook is possibly good for this as it allows you to blog, but I beg to differ. Besides, why let someone snoop on your privacy like that?).
I've switched more and more to Medium and have been writing more there, but there's an inherent bias in that site and a sad and notable lack of diversity in who they promote (in almost any way you can imagine). Of course, that means you should at least read my points there.
I've written about this problem of the internet and even the blogs and their comment threads. There is a way to improve this, though I don't think that anyone has a real monetary reason to do so. We'll see, maybe I'll end up doing it.

Anyways, this is all a long way of saying that I'm off social media more and more and might be forever. So even if I feel like I'm leaving a battlefield (And that is what it is because that's where people are) it's time I start looking for something better. I thought Medium would be it, but so far they have too many issues.

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