Saturday Social – Oct. 2, 2021 Edition

This week I want to update my experience on the newest-to-me platform I started using, and do an update on what’s going on and where I am in my quest for an online social life that replaces Big Social Media in my life. For those who need to catch up, I left Big Social Media …
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Huge Epiphany

It just occurred to me that the internet is WAY WAY WAY bigger than FB or Twitter or YouTube. When I left big tech I discovered so many things, so many wonderful people, so very very much that I wouldn’t have ever known otherwise! I feel like I thought my entire country consisted of my …
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Please don’t leave…

…but it you do, I won’t miss you enough to leave my favorite playground… As I posted on my chat (see this blog’s home page) by way of introduction to this post, so many people that claimed they didn’t want me to leave Twitter and FB (especially the latter) haven’t shown that they’ve missed me …
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Social Media: Its Role In My Life, pt. I

I’ve been involved in social media before it was called that, starting in the 80’s on one of those 300 baud cradle modems to find “evidence of life” as I thought of it, then CompuServe, local BBSes, then the IRC. Social media has become something that nobody could have dreamed of 30+ years ago! And …
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