My choice to leave Facebook wasn't to become an internal emigre or to escape "political discussion", but that I knew that this baseball card collection & ad platform of my friends family and acquaintances was not enhancing my sense of community or bettering my relationships. And it finally became too saturated to continue being a useful networking tool for my work as a musician (averaging 20+ invites a day).
—> Never mind the constant changes on privacy settings without consent, never mind the limited choice on how my life is displayed in this internet scrapbook with facial recognition, never mind the increased labor/interaction required to successfully curate the experience, never mind the ethically questionable social experiments Facebook has conducted, etc. But now the proliferation of fake news and a board member like Peter Thiel make it clear that I made the right choice back in September.
I stay active on twitter, more for amplifying voices I believe in, and will focus on resisting in less watered-down, performative ways.
Since I pay for this ad-free space, I would like to say the following.
Donald Trump is not a legitimate president. I choose to post this publicly on my website in solidarity with all the dissenters, especially those standing with #blacklivesmatter, those for reproductive freedom and sex workers' rights, and the safety of immigrants, Muslims (#NoBanNoWall), and the LGBTQA community, and those who rally around the support of climate science, those about to lose healthcare, and just a growing list of groups and individuals this administration targets.
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