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iTwitter | |
iOctober 14th, 2017 | |
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iI deleted my Twitter account this week. It's been a decision I've | |
ibeen building up to for a while now. There's so many things that | |
imake me furious on there. Pretty much everything to do with | |
iAmerican politics, the abuses of people of color and the LGBT | |
icommunity, women, Nazi bullshit, it just keeps going. The few | |
imoments of hilarity when a brand will respond to a person with | |
ia witty remark just don't balance the scales. | |
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iI met my wife on Twitter, via my best friend. I have^H^Hd a large | |
icommunity to draw on and engage with. I kept in touch with some | |
ipeople only via that medium. But, having left Facebook almost 10 | |
iyears ago, I realize that there's no real regrets in shedding | |
ia social network. The people who reach out to me in another way | |
iare the ones worthy of keeping in touch. The community I leave | |
ibehind in one space will be matched by a new community elsewhere. | |
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iTwitter is a cesspool of hate, of anger. It cannot police its own | |
isystems. It does not deserve to have my attention. |