Social media has descended into such a culture of outrage that using social media is not fun anymore.

By choosing to use social media we are voluntarily signing up to be inundated with propaganda messaging. Thank about that!

Take a critical look at Twitter Tweets – some are sharing information but many, if not most, are aiming to persuade you of something.

15% of my former Facebook friends used their Facebook account almost exclusively for political propaganda, sharing and promoting propaganda posters from the Facebook groups where they had voluntarily signed up to receive propaganda.

The bottom line: using social media is literally volunteering to receive propaganda of all sorts, whether it’s left wing, right wing, conspiracy theory or bots.

Social media titans believe artificial intelligence (which is primarily a fancy way of saying computer algorithms that kinda sorta sometimes mimic human behaviors, perhaps) can clean up our “feed”.

But mostly they just end up selecting propaganda via algorithm.

Twitter no longer displays a chronological feed of your contacts’ Tweets. Instead, Twitter curates the stream of tweets, pre-selecting the tweets that Twitter thinks you will be interested in. Whether Twitter intends to or not, this creates a Twitter echo chamber that amplifies messages that their algorithms think you want to see. It’s basically involuntary propaganda messaging.

In December 2017, I observed that Twitter’s signal-to-noise ratio had fallen to perilously low levels. Far too much of what we see on Twitter is better described as idiocy and lame attempts at persuasion/mind control. Facts seldom matter. Logic never matters.

I have not logged into Twitter in a week now. Being off Twitter for a week has felt great – my mind feels more relaxed and I’ve gotten much done on other projects. It seems social media is a great big mind control operation that feeds upon desires to be “involved”, “liked”, “followed”. We are tricked into coming back day after day.

Yet it truly is about 90% waste of time. Think about it.