From Elsewhere

[supergee]

Since I like DreamWidth better than Facebook, I should bring over some of my best posts from there.

I hope history records 2022 as a year of two great “Hubris meets Nemesis” stories: Zuck/Meta and Lone Skum/Twitter.

I first heard of Twitter when it still had the 140-character limit. I was horrified to realize that there was a huge demographic with shorter attention spans than mine.

I signed up with Twitter so they would stop nagging and do not participate. I see no reason to change that policy.

I may be confusing the A“I” by Liking a lot of financial news, but it’s all about the fall of Meta. As was said at the movie producer’s funeral, “Give the people what they want and they’ll come out for it.”

Many Twits want a social network in which they can wallow in their favorite flavors of hate speech, but that leaves out the truism that they are the product, not the customers. The real customers (the advertisers) are reasonably afraid of being associated with such a thing.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Hubris meets nemesis = Boris Johnson!

[supergee]

There's a lot of hubris going around, so maybe nemesis is backlogged.

[dewline]

Nemesis is absolutely backlogged!

[cmcmck]

It's all the more amusing when you consider that Bojo is a classicist by education........

[weofodthignen]

I like it better when you post here, because then I get to see it :-)

Twitter can hardly get worse; I would imagine by now that any woman who has to use it for her career is aware of the high level of scum there and fore-armed. While I hope fun accounts like bestofnextdoor, dog_rates, and Bodegacats_ remain unscathed, I am thrilled to see high-level executives unceremoniously fired. No humans were harmed in this exercise.

[sturgeonslawyer]

Since I like DreamWidth better than Facebook, I stopped using Facebook about three years ago. My only regret is that it was my contact point with Chip Delany.