[wenc]

For me

Twitter: anger

Instagram: vanity

Facebook: pride

Of those, I hate anger the most so I am off twitter, even though it’s still a great place to overhear the latest in the business, geopolitics and tech zeitgeist. You literally hear about things before anyone else. But I decided that life is too short to be angry all the time.

I like instagram because it’s entertaining (and am of the age where I can ignore influencer antics). This is not true of younger folks for whom instagram is a mimetic model (there’s so much bad advice on it — especially on how to be a man or a woman today). As an older person, I want to tell young people: don’t get relationship advice off instagram. They’re so shallow and make you so entitled — “if your guy doesn’t do this, you’re too good for him” is pretty toxic.

Facebook used to be this political rage bait place but everyone’s left so I’m still hanging around with my geezer friends in their 40s. It’s become a place to share travel photos and pictures of kids.

Tiktok: I’m too old for Tiktok but I hear young people use it for news.

Google: I still use Google but young people are now increasingly abandoning Google and search on ChatGPT.

[jschveibinz]

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