With out social media I would never have been able to gather international support for a local non discrimination ordinance. But I did and it passed and we made history. I could also point to DADT, ENDA, ACA repeal and the DREAMERS as examples of the power of social media and community.
I will not abandon the community I’ve built. Now more than ever we have to recognize that community isn’t always in person and go to where the people are. Some of my favorite people are ones I will never meet who I interact with on line only.
Still, when I lost 25K followers by leaving Twitter/X, nobody stopped me on the street to see if I was okay. Yet, if I don’t call family every week, they do what it takes to check on me.
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I left Twitter and Instagram last year after MAGA conquered it.
No love lost.
Social media is a productivity vacuum—and there’s a life out there (somewhere) to be lived.
Historian Ann Waltner let me treat #her to dinner.
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Chris Lupke let me #treat him to dinner!
Two days later, he also told a #Chinese colleague to let me treat them to the lunch we had just finished at a nice #NOLA restaurant.
It's time for #supper now.
Still, when I lost 25K followers by leaving Twitter/X, nobody stopped me on the street to see if I was okay. Yet, if I don’t call family every week, they do what it takes to check on me.
And that, for me, is the difference.