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The election and its aftermath have yielded another Facebook exodus.
We all have those friends. They can’t take any more vitriol and fake news, so they make an announcement. “I’m leaving, but you all have my mobile number.”
Well, no, we don’t. And in any case, it would feel weird to text you specifically instead of sharing with hundreds of people at once.
The strangest cases are those who leave Facebook … and go to Twitter, the biggest portal to Hell the world has ever seen. I’ve had hundreds of people come after me on Twitter for such offenses as disagreeing with Q-Anon and doing the math on the U.S. women’s soccer team’s pay demands. The trending topics these days are mostly alerts that something that has gone viral is fake.
The only rationale I’ve seen for leaving Facebook friends for Twitter twits is that you can create your own lists on Twitter and therefore have more control over what you see.
That rationale is wrong.
Frankly, that rationale smacks of privilege. What I deal with on Twitter is nothing compared to what women go through:
You want to support that and not Facebook?
