SOCIAL MEDIA WILL NEVER BEAT HAVING A CHAT AROUND A CAMPFIRE OR OVER THE DINNER TABLE

Just wanted to type out a few thoughts i have about social media before i shuffle off to bed. I know i have been down this road before, bagging the likes of facebook and Twitter, the vast majority of people using one or both, which is around a billion now, are using the social media either in the incorrect way unintentionally or in an intentionally untoward and sus manner. Look, i admit, i have been a hypocrite of late with social media, i said i was going to wean myself off facebook and never start on Twitter months ago, and here i am now being on both of them months later. It's a neccesary evil, i know facebook & Twitter trashes the concept of good old fashioned conversation, i know more people than not who are on them are either brainwashed by social media or potentially could be if they haven't been already, but from my perspective, the one and probaly only good aspect of facebook and Twitter is the fact it allows many ordinary citizens to get their message out to a wide audience, which in normal circumstances without social media, would never get out to an audience. The mainstream media has no control over social media either, and given my excommunication from the press biz, i can totally relate to the for argument that social media is neccesary, albeit painfully repetitious and a huge threat to traditional forms of communication. Twitter to me is grossly voyeuristic from a psychiatric perspective, you couldn't possibly say that telling the world about every single step you take each day is a constructive and healthy exercise, but this social media monolith continues to rope in millions with its more simple and straightforward page set out, which at the very least doesn't allow for an imaginary of photos like facebook. A lot of professionals use Twitter as opposed to facebook for its less tacky presentation, that may be the case but at least on facebook some people still know how to type out a paragraph and write a bit of a life story which has some meaning. Twitter is for geeks, journos, politicians and academics who aren't capable of stringing together a good story of their life, while facebook simply oversteps the visual privacy mark by allowing people to post photos of their kids on there and other things which just isn't appropriate. I may be outnumbered a billion to one, but my attitude is that one of the greatest lost treasures in the world is a bit of old fashioned communication, one on one, over a dinner table, round a campfire or anywhere where you miracuously coax somebody to talk person to person like old times. Honestly, if it weren't for my family i'd have no one to talk to, the internet & social media is the loneliest place on earth, even though a billion or more people are on there as well, as lonely as you are.