I know reasonable, sober, and intelligent people who are into weird TikTok memes, strange conspiracy junk on X, and spend vast amounts of time doing frivolous things on Facebook. None of them are people I’d peg as among those easy to mislead or gullible. That they evidently can’t quench a need for the outre is enough to make me careful about how much social media I consume. After all, if they can fall for that nonsense, am I safe?
Can the bad JuJu mislead me into believing that aliens are among us? Or entice me into idiotic and dangerous pranks? I had enough of that stuff in the ’60s.
Just so you know – I am a proud post-graduate of Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. I can see a con, jive, or bit of trouble coming from a mile away. I am also no fool, and I realize that some of the people who can’t seem to keep their eyes off TikTok have the same or similar background as me. That scares the living, you know what, out of me.
If they can be pulled into it, so can I.
So, I check Facebook twice a week for updates on friends or to visit a few closed maritime groups – but I rarely spend five minutes doing it.
I have no TikTok account, and I closed my account when Muskmelon took over Twitter. My blog is my only significant point of contact with social media, and I like it that way.
My advice on social media is to find a corner you are comfortable with and engage carefully and judiciously. For me, that corner is my WordPress blog. I can control the interface. I can shut down the crazies. And I can explore at will.
Choose, but choose wisely, as the knight in the Indiana Jones picture said. Now go valiantly forth and sin no more!
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Word Press is my only social media platform these days, and I like it that way 🙂
Good choice!
Great post 🎩🎩
I’ve seen it too. Have really questioned how each social media platform serves me, and am backing off.
For some people it get to be like a street drug.
Yes, it does.