In a discussion about Facebook and Twitter’s blatant hypocrisy in their choices of censorship, my friend posted the other day, “If you continue to support them with your $$, you are supporting their choices.”
This has really hit home with me.
I, and my fellow conservatives, rant and scream about the flagrant censorship of our viewpoints and posts, yet we continue to go on social media and post. We continue to tweet and post our snarky memes and rail about how bad this or that is. In short, despite what we think we’re doing we are, in effect, continuing to support the very entities we claim we don’t like.
And here’s the kicker friends: IT DOESN’T MATTER IF WE’RE RIGHT. Everyone already knows social media is leftist and goes out of its way to censor conservative voice. It’s not debatable. It’s common knowledge. And it simply doesn’t matter so long as we continue to feed this machine.
We’re not changing anyone’s mind on Facebook, and we certainly can’t have a civil discussion there. God knows I’ve tried both and wasted far too many hours learning something that should’ve been obvious in the first place.
Therefore, I’m considering ditching it. All of it. I won’t care what Facebook and Twitter decide to do because I simply won’t use them anymore. Which will probably wind up making my life much richer, as I think better of people when I don’t know their political leanings. See, now when people I know call others deplorable racist facist homophobic xenophobic misogynistic nazis for simply disagreeing with them, I won’t even know it.
So my question to those of like mind is, what do you think? I suppose Fbook won’t give a rats if one person comes or goes (neither will Twitter), and I highly doubt this will turn into a movement (although the idea of 70 million conservative shrugging Fbook off makes me giddy), but I can’t shake the idea now that every day I stay on them I’m continuing to support this godless, morally corrupt cesspool of an enterprise.
What say you?
11 replies on “Our Social Media Problem”
One thing platforms like facebook an google do is collecting data to learn what the masses are thinking as a whole. If all republicans and centrists would quit those platforms then they can’t collect that kind of data anymore. Or at least not as easily. Perhaps that is also worth a thought.
I got rid of Facebook last year. Got rid of Twitter last year. Deleted Reddit and Disqus yesterday. Got rid of one Google account.
I’m working on my other 2 Google accounts, though those are a little harder to untangle as I’ve had them for years and they’re tied to a lot of other accounts. I just need to make sure ZohoMail isn’t going to sell out my email. I may cut the cord a little faster this weekend if I don’t see any random spam showing up.
Also uninstalled Chrome and switched to Brave (which I like very much thus far–it’s a great replacement).
I’ve heard some I follow on YT saying they will stay until they get kicked off. I understand defiance, but if they’ve already lost their monetization and every other vid is censored, what’s the point?
I decided to leave FB & YT back in Nov. Almost 2K followers/subs, etc.
I let them know for about 2 weeks how to find me, told them when I was leaving, then left on that day.
Customers, potential customers, friends, etc. All gone.
BUT, I’m less stressed. Don’t have to even see the “twilight zone” feed or unsolicited hateful vomit comments from people I didn’t even know.
I’m looking to see what my biz model will include now, but I’m kinda waiting to see what’s left after “the purge”.
I never used Twitter much at all and I stopped using Facebook the day after the election. Yesterday, despite being creator of and participant in a number of FB groups and pages (all uncontroversially hobby-related or purely for amusement, my favorites being the page Arnie Spelding, Chemtrail Pilot and the group Grammar Libertarians), I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
No gradual sliding off them, just clean cuts. Those companies can fuck right off to hell.
I’m on Parler and MeWe. Parler is, at least for the time being, dead. Amazon pulled it from their servers. MeWe is still up and running. For how long, we don’t know.
Fortunately, I don’t have to give up anything I never started. I can spend my time much more profitably, enjoyably and purposefully than any of those gutter-dwelling platforms would ever allow.
Facebook was deleted this morning. My account was one of the first, dating back to the beta. Twitter is long gone. The secret is realizing that you are affecting nothing. No minds have ever been changed. I have two modes: off and war. Somebody come find me when it’s time for war.
I was Cancelled from FB for wrong-speaking against the whole Re-Greta Thunberg craze. That was over 2 years ago.
How was I affected? 2600 followers and 11 years of arts and entertainment down the tubes… Messenger was also instantly cancelled, although it was a separate app, so no more contacts… I did, however start working more locally on odd jobs.
Then YT cancelled my account… Presumably for wrong-speaking in the comment section of a video. I had ZERO content uploaded to my channel, but did have a robust 400+ subscriptions that I used to keep informed, all lost…
Result? Being WAY… more productive with my time designing from home.
Now, I use Bitchute to try and keep up on current events, Signal for messaging, and my LinkedIn is still up, but I never could figure out how that app is actually useful. It’s filled with a bunch of normy-simps all virtue signalling to their apathetic network groups…
The best thing to do is ditch the PC social media, use alt-media to fill the digital side of the vacuum, and get back out into the real world, like we all did before the internet sucked the humanity out of our skulls.
#BeTheRenaissance
I am slowly unraveling Facebook from my life. I will contact my friends and pass along my contact information.
I will contact the pages and groups that I like and tell them goodbye and why I am leaving.
I will put my efforts into putting in place the election safeguards that Bill talked about. I will only focus on one issue. For me, fair and honest elections are of utmost importance.
For anyone here, I am in Riverside California.
Contact me if you are in Riverside County. We have to go hyperlocal now!
It’s about time y’all! My family and I all left fbook years ago. Abandoned even our local news when they refuse to post both sides in the comments section. They degrade our president and anyone who dares to say anything other than their leftist, communist narrative. If I wanted to support that, I would move back to RUSSIA!!
I came across this article today
https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/tim-berners-lee-wants-to-turn-the-internet-on-its-head-and-decentralize-it-once-more-353998.html
Essentially Tim Berners-Lee has has enough of large companies dominating his world wide web. And yes, that’s ‘his’ as in he invented it.
“Inrupt is a startup that Berners-Lee has been working on in stealth for about nine months. He’s even taken a sabbatical from his prestigious position teaching at MIT’s CSAIL labs in order to work full time. And Inrupt will finally launch to the world this week, Berners-Lee told Fast Company in an exclusive interview.
Inrupt is built on the ‘Solid’ platform, something he and others at MIT have been working on for years. Solid is basically designed to be like the early days of the Internet, wild and free, and Inrupt will be the way to access it, at least to start.
In a demonstration for the piece, he pulled up what looked like a very basic browser page, completely barebones. Part of an app built for his personal use, it displays his calendar, address book, chats, his music etc. It’s like if you combined Google Drive with WhatsApp, Spotify, and pretty much every piece of cloud storage and online connectivity you use today, all in one place. The difference here is that all the information is under his control.”
Very interesting indeed. Wonder when it’ll be squashed by our monitoring overlords…