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Jeffrey Peel's avatar

Utterly, utterly brilliant Bob. I called my book South of Market because it used to be the location of Twitter's HQ. Social Media is verging on satanic. And I, like you, and most people reading this, have been sucked into it too. We need to switch off and join a club or do anything but what we're doing.

Frances Leader's avatar

Ever thought about the names of the most popular social media platforms?

Face Book - a place where you voluntarily fill your own CIA filing cabinet with many images of your face, associates and family in a neat autobio book.

Twitter - a place where your opinions were believed to be the tweets of little birdies but were really revealing every psych-twist in your soul to the fat controllers. Lately renamed X which reinforces the extra juice being filed against you while denying you the "reach" you believe you need.

Discord - disturbing, distressing, dissing disparate corner to meet up with others who focus on a chosen obsession.

Instagram - neither instant nor grammatically valuable.

TikTok - a place that wastes your time.

and now Substack - a subordinate subterranean stacked echo chamber dungeon full of disgruntled dissidents whose voices can only be heard by other tortured inmates and seldom by the general public. A place where a surfeit of celebrated authors earn small fortunes and genuine genius ideas come to fester and die unheard.

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