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Stephen Downes

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I'll let you read this for yourself and draw your own conclusions, but my take is the Josh Simmons felt better after quitting social media, but he wondered why he was still taking photos. Fair enough. But I have a different take on all this. To me, social media is like radio. I like radio - real radio, not automated stations pumping out playlists - because of the immediacy. I like the idea that there is this person on the radio playing stuff, and if the world were to blow up, this person would tell me (unlike the automated radio station, which would keep playing old Beatles tunes through doomsday). I also like being the one that would tell other people things. If we don't have social media, or if we don't have live radio, then we're living in a small narrow little world, and while some people may feel that this is healthier, I don't.

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