Social media etiquette? Does such a thing even exist anymore? When on any given day your eyeballs can be hit with posts glorifying genocide, disinformation, and alpha-thug rapists and traffickers?
The answer is yes. Even though social media feels more and more like an airplane headed for a large mountain, piloted by a tantrum-y two-year-old. And, as the New Yorker pronounced this week, social media just isn’t fun anymore.
If you are on social media to reach readers, you still need to appeal to those readers. And most readers tend to be more civilized than the average Neo-Nazi or Russian troll. If you’re hoping to reach other writers, the same is true. The writing community hasn’t changed because the bluebird of happiness has been murdered and somebody is giving your data to the Chinese secret police.
In general, etiquette and good manners seem to be lacking in society at large lately.
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so true. Keep bedroom posts for private messaging. I really don’t want to know what anyone else do in those intimate moments.
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