Nate Covington
Private Citizen
Social Media
Why I’ve shut down my social media accounts
Goodbye, Facebook. Goodbye, Twitter. Goodbye, Youtube. Goodbye, MySpace. Goodbye, Google+.
Edit 1/19/17:
Facebook blocks RT from posting until after Trump inauguration
Edit 1/16/17:
Angela Merkel caught on hot mic griping to Facebook CEO over anti-immigrant posts
For now, I’m keeping my LinkedIN account up and running because I’ve found numerous clients from it, and I have a handful of good recommendations from clients on my profile.
I’ve been becoming increasingly frustrated with my Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ accounts lately. It seems that social media is a great tool, but it’s becoming too centralized. Too corporate. Newsfeed are censored: unlike traditional communications tools, just because you post something, doesn’t mean that people will actually see or read it.
I’m tired of these large corporations earning a profit off of me, signing into Facebook every day like a sucker.
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"I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.
And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”
~ Steve Jobs
