I thought that it might be insightful to share my opinion regarding social medias.
Facebook was my first big love with social media. I wouldn’t call myself a first mover because many of my friends had already been using Facebook before I started.
Once I joined the Facebook band wagon, it changed the way I communicated with my friends. Instead of using personal phone messaging, I started sending messages through facebook. It was a revolution as it became “free” to communicate with friends worldwide as Facebook uses internet instead of mobile phone lines.
One of Facebook’s main selling proposition is that it helped you keep track of your friends’ birthdays and activities.
I created a Facebook page for BioplasticsNews.com in the early days, but today … I never surf on Facebook anymore. Facebook has literally become obsolete for me.
I created a Twitter account in the early days of BioplasticsNews.com but I never spent time on Twitter. I didn’t fully grasp the point of Twitter. Nobody was on Twitter. The post format of Twitter was limited to a small number of characters which was a good and bad point at the same time.
The LinkedIn rage followed shortly after the Facebook revolution. LinkedIn was the first professional social media. I have been using LinkedIn on a daily basis until a few months ago. In short, LinkedIn was the social media where I spent the most of my time … consistently.
However, I still use LinkedIn everyday (around 5 minutes per day) but it’s not on top of my mind anymore. I can spend days without checking my LinkedIn account.
Never used it, or maybe just one post. I spend 15 min per year on Instagram….15 min. per year.
Tik Tok
Never used it and I’m not planning to do so in the coming future.
X
Twitter became X after it was bought by Elon Musk and I have to say that it became relevant since it was purchased by Musk.
Today, I spend most of my time on X; around 30 min per day.
The main advantage of X is that it has become a free speech platform. X provides the two sides of the debate: the pros and contras, the protagonists and antagonists. Mainstream media has become no match for X because X provides the mainstream media narrative but also other less official narratives.
X has become the “canary in the cave” for societal matters; it catches the Zeitgeist on time.
Another particularity of X is that it balances between private and professional topics. You can use X for professional and private subjects of interests.
Today, free speech is in danger …. not because of Elon Musk but because of malevolent politicians who seem to have a problem with the existence of diverging opinions and alternative narratives.
Political institutions such as the European Commission are asking more transparency from X while, one could argue, that it would be a bigger priority to increase transparency on the functioning of the EU institutions.
Wokeism
X has become the embodiment of Wokeism…. you know … being ‘woke’.
You may believe that Wokeism is about genderism and transgenderism, but it’s not.
And that’s another great insight from X: Wokeism has been portrayed as being only about LGBTQ issues while in fact it’s almost not about that. In fact, the biggest chunk of woke people would define wokeism as ‘being sensitive to social, political and economic injustices’.
Wokeism is about being ‘awake’ … about understanding that the official narrative … the official truth …. is biased and is there to serve a purpose: the mainstream narrative serves the status quo.
Another great insight from X is that ‘Woke’ people don’t use the word woke or wokeism to refer to themselves. In fact, most of them don’t even know the word woke or wokeism.
Wokeism is a term used by mainstream media to label and stigmatise the movement that wants to change the status quo…. that wants to expose the ‘institutional injustices’.
Here’s the complexity: mainstream media will be considered as woke in the sense that they promote LGBTQ issues; while conservative politicians like Trump will be considered as anti-woke …. and this is correct according to the main stream media definition of wokeism.
However, for many woke people, politicians like Trump represent a disruption from the past and the status quo. .. and they will consider him as woke although both Trump and the people who have problems with injustices don’t use / understand the word wokeism
Let me re-phrase this: Trump understands wokeism in the sense that mainstream media has defined it, so he would consider himself as anti-woke, but the real woke people who don’t identify as woke would perceive Trump as a woke politician because he’s promising to undo injustices done by previous politicians.
Politicians who have been reading mainstream media have tried to surf on the wokeism wave by limiting their actions to woke gender issues. Politicians who have been surfing on X are smarter in understanding the Zeitgeist of “it is time to make an end to injustices” and better grasp the hidden meaning of woke.
To some extend, it seems as if mainstream media have tried to sabotage the woke movement that wants to make an end to injustices.
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