Well, that’s me not joining in with that experiment then. 
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I was lying about pornhub.
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mushroom porn. If it isn’t on there, you shouldn’t be watching it…
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Found twitter a trove as well. Particularly for news, as well as reading various professors for free.
I use it differently to most everyone though. I don’t have an account, I don’t want an account (not yet anyway), since I try to get news on various conflicts. This way, I can “follow” whomever I want, without getting banned by someone who sees that I follow someone on the “other side” of a conflict etc.
So yeah, I use twitter manually, just for information and nothing else. Got a wide network I can read and it is getting just bigger and bigger.
The way it often works for me is that I find one professor that is interesting, then I click on his/her friends or the ones he/she re-tweets, finds out if its knowledgeable people or not, notes if it is, move on if it isn’t. It works for me. Obviously not “smooth” to use twitter in this manner, but it is effective enough for me.
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Ermm… not convinced, Mark!
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A brief explanation of the link may help members decide whether they can be arsed clicking the link.
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Kettle, pot. Pot, Kettle.
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That’s all we need another world leader becoming obsessed with twitter tweets. 
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Hi guys, little help here.
Don’t understand how Facebook and Google is hurting the news agencies. I often browse ABC for Australian news, so searching via Google is basically promoting ABC, right!
As if the data being “old” can be swept under the carpet.
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Read a pretty decent piece this morning on the worthlessness of the endeavor
It makes an interesting point, that in the void the Covid shut down created meant social media was never more relevant but also never more pointless, yet we couldn’t step away. And that goes beyond the brain casino hacking these things were engineered to be. I dont agree with all of it, as he seems (or maybe the author he’s reviewing?) seems to misunderstand that meaning is not distinct from chemical…we get meaning from the way things produce chemical reactions.
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Crazy stuff this and pretty funny too actually. How easily people on LinkedIn as well are gullible. As such LinkedIn is full of posts like these, people so easily miss the sarcasm in the posts.
Some of the tweets on his handle regarding this are insane.
I watched an interesting documentary called “Cleaners” last night.
It is about the people Google, YouTube, Fb, Twitter etc employ to “clean” postings. They look at a minimum of 2500 images per day each and there is estimated to be over 2000 people employed to check and delete posts. The majority are based in the Phillipines.
It certainly gave me a different perspective regarding “censorship” and the “censors”. Some of the images they have to look at are simply horrific - it undoubtedly has a negative effect upon their lives and their thinking. Certainly not a job I could do.
I will certainly think twice before criticising any perceived “censorship” again.
Well worth a look - a very well made documentary.
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Dont know if it covered it, but that people in that role supposedly have a massively increased rate of depression and self harm, which can only be read as a consequence of having to look at horror shows all day every day (for near minimum wage)
Yes - the psychological affects of that job have driven some to suicide.
Not images I would want inside my head.
Thanks for recommending this. Really eye opening and disturbing at some level. We live in a bubble not knowing how significantly things affect us or so many others who do so much that we don’t know for us. Must watch just like social dilemma that was recommended earlier.
does reading tweets by gold bridge and AFTV count as social media usage ?
That’s about my usage right now across all social media outlets including fb,linkedin & twitter.