Wow and this is written by a journalist from the great NYT.
This is what I got from your ridiculous article.
1. You've reported how dangerous technology has become especially with platforms like (Ugh) Twitter. And you admit you spend a large part of your day on...TWITTER???
2. You complain about how most of these apps (which suck up personal info like a vacuum cleaner) are unreliable and possibly quite dangerous to our democracy!!!
3. You can't get enough of all the stuff you've warned us about. And you are in one way or another connected to the internet, cloud, etc...
4. You are an awesome example why media companies will continue to buy up everything they can, until we are down to a few monolithic and monstrous companies that will force us to accept what they have, or dare I say, wind up in a ditch.
5. You are clearly part of the problem, not the solution.
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The author gets sore fingers (textaditis) from a tippy tappy addicting habit: I, On the other hand do as much dictating as possible, Using my device as a stenographer… Although, I can sometimes, get sore vocal chords from yelling at Siri for always getting my words wrong
I would love to sign up for Facebox or what have you just to Delete it e.g. chop off the nose in spite of one’s self;But I don’t have to worry about that, people out there already spiteful of me in real time
Social media companies should be held responsible for what is published on their platforms the same way traditional media companies are held responsible for what they publish. Let social media companies get sued for liable, slander, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, etc. Online discourse would improve and the bogus stories and foreign government interference in elections would decline.
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Jim:
Start a trend— go cold turkey off of Twitter and Facebook. Do you really think that with them you are better informed than say, Arthur Krock and Walter Lippman? You and many other reporters I admire are doing the journalistic equivalent of eating digital Big Macs and quadrupling you cholesterol levels when you could be out there actually learning information from real sources with real knowledge of events, increasing your body and brain strength. Stop feeding and help kill the beasts— turn them into Myspace. Stop feeding the enemies of truth, fair play, and just plain not being stupid.
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