I’m not worried about Elon Musk buying Twitter because it’s a waste of energy.
I’ve decided that the only real currency we have these days is our energy; spend it at risk. Think long and hard about what you give him.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. People spend a lot of energy these days on things that aren’t real, don’t matter, will probably never affect them. Don’t like Twitter? Give it up. Delete. Hate Facebook? Go away. I have done both. It’s liberating.
I don’t spend any energy on it. My only social media is Instagram, I happily hit the block and delete button on trolls. Why let them take up space in your head, or take up your energy and time? Meaningless.
If social media isn’t fun, safe or informative, why bother? However, it seems that many of us worry about what we see online, or what others can see online.
Increasingly, the concern is misinformation and disinformation. By the way, I wonder to what extent people who are concerned about this personally, don’t understand how the algorithms work, don’t know they’re being targeted with their news and stories, realize they’re in an echo chamber , don’t realize they can control what they see and read with the click of a button.
They are probably the same people who read the comment section. Again, a colossal waste of energy.
Since when do you care what a bunch of strangers on the internet think? Do you stop people on the street and ask them what they are thinking?
Does the thought of some coincidence that you’ve never met and will have again really bother you?
And what can you do about it? Nothing. So why waste energy on it?
However, this long-term National Security knowledge survey showed that one in four Kiwis are concerned about misinformation online. They see it as “the biggest threat to them and their families”.
So 25 percent of us are concerned about national security. However, how would we really know the ins and outs of our national security?
Let’s be honest. How worried are we that it will change it?
The Prime Minister believes that misinformation is “affecting our liberal democracies”. I can think of many things that affect our liberal democracy here in New Zealand and misinformation would not be at the top of my list.
However, it may be the government’s disunity for this. But that’s what I mean. who to trust?
We have developed a healthy cynicism about the media by now, surely, and the politicians. Do we really take everything we see and hear at face value?
I understand that misinformation can be dangerous and lead people down a rabbit hole. Most sane people with their wits about them though won’t go down these rabbit holes.
I’m talking about the things you can control. Knowing the algorithms you are part of, or at least acknowledging their existence. Questioning what you’re fed online, deleting or getting rid of things that don’t suit you.
If your media sources are stressful, get rid of them. Is it possible that more of these things than we realize is actually under our control?
Surely it’s liberating to worry about what you can control and forget about the rest? It’s less the misinformation that I’m personally concerned about and more the information overload that I think is the problem.
