{"id":49393,"date":"2021-10-03T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49393"},"modified":"2021-10-03T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:13:02","slug":"watch-out-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49393","title":{"rendered":"Watch out, social media!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Social media can be full of trickery, blind spots and occasional booby traps … which is why I like to use social media platforms primarily to convey thoughts I write on High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n

I kind of ran into one of those booby traps today with a post I shared on a private neighborhood group on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The post had to do with an upcoming election in Princeton, Texas, where I live. The city wants to stage an election in November that will ask voters for permission to form a home-rule charter commission to draft a charter for the city to govern itself.<\/p>\n

I wanted to share it on a neighborhood group to which my wife and I belong. I submitted the blog post, but it got kicked out. It was rejected by Facebook. The “administrator” of the group where I sent the item said the issue is publishing items on multiple social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Hmm. No sweat. Now I hear that Facebook might be monkeying around a bit too liberally with social media content. It is “censoring” some items, one of my “neighbors” wrote.<\/p>\n

Whatever. We live now in an era where social media has emerged as a primary source of information for millions of Americans. I have friends and members of my family to rely on social media to give them the “news.” The problem I see with that option is that they aren’t getting “news” the way I understand the term; they are hearing opinions<\/em> on the news and if you agree with the slant, you listen some more; but if you disagree with it, well, you hit the road.<\/p>\n

This the new age in media, my friends. It isn’t pretty. It is, as the late Walter Cronkite would tell us, “the way it is.”<\/p>\n

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