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I am using social media to be - social. My facebook friends are mostly composed of people I have interacted with in real life first. I use Instagram/Facebook t

by _ph_ 5y ago

I am using social media to be - social. My facebook friends are mostly composed of people I have interacted with in real life first. I use Instagram/Facebook to display the photos I want to publicly share, easiest way to get some audience, especially people I know. I use Twitter mostly as a news service to follow people whom I know to post interesting content. Especially Twitter can be a valuable source of very up to date information if you have a trending hash tag. E.g. with the recent flood disaster in Germany, you could get a stream of posts from the affected areas. The trending hash tag can though be quite a snake pit, as, depending on the tag, a lot of bad posts can appear too, there are a lot of hash tags to avoid :)

rootsudo 5y ago
That isn't how life is supposed to be, you're manipulating your image and selling a version of yourself that isn't truly you. Twitter is also not news.
- _ph_ 5y ago
  Sorry, how you state it, it is just plainly wrong. I am not manipulating my image at all. I am not posting images of my self, but general natural photography. Animals, flowers, landscapes. I am not selling anything. I also have not claimed that Twitter would be "the news". But it is a great source of specific information. To repeat the example I had put into my previous post: when a disaster strikes a certain place, the best chance to find immediate information like pictures/videos taken is people affected tweeting. This is raw material, just some data. This is of course to be complemented by the news media, though these often enough are limited to the same sources, but they might do some aggregating and processing. Often enough news events never make it to the news, because they are only of local interest. Also Twitter is often the outlet of official organizations. Like the police of a large city informing the inhabitants about events they should be informed upon.
  - hodgesrm 5y ago
    > Also Twitter is often the outlet of official organizations. Like the police of a large city informing the inhabitants about events they should be informed upon. That's definitely the case where I live. It's second on my go-to list after our local news website.

by _ph_ 5y ago

rootsudo 5y ago

That isn't how life is supposed to be, you're manipulating your image and selling a version of yourself that isn't truly you. Twitter is also not news.

_ph_ 5y ago
Sorry, how you state it, it is just plainly wrong. I am not manipulating my image at all. I am not posting images of my self, but general natural photography. Animals, flowers, landscapes. I am not selling anything. I also have not claimed that Twitter would be "the news". But it is a great source of specific information. To repeat the example I had put into my previous post: when a disaster strikes a certain place, the best chance to find immediate information like pictures/videos taken is people affected tweeting. This is raw material, just some data. This is of course to be complemented by the news media, though these often enough are limited to the same sources, but they might do some aggregating and processing. Often enough news events never make it to the news, because they are only of local interest. Also Twitter is often the outlet of official organizations. Like the police of a large city informing the inhabitants about events they should be informed upon.
- hodgesrm 5y ago
  > Also Twitter is often the outlet of official organizations. Like the police of a large city informing the inhabitants about events they should be informed upon. That's definitely the case where I live. It's second on my go-to list after our local news website.