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Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter | Kate Conger, Ryan Mac

#Positive_Things_I_Have_Done_Today

Although I haven't actually used Twitter/X for a long time, I have formally deactivated my account today. Take that, Elon!🖕

BarbaraBB Thanks, you convinced me to do the same. And I did! Bye scary Elon 👋🏽 4w

AmyG I did that a while ago. It‘s just filled with hate and disinformation. (edited) 4w

Seabreeze_Reader 👍👏 Good for you! 4w

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Bookwomble @BarbaraBB Nice one! 😊 It's a movement! ✊😄 (edited) 4w

Bookwomble @AmyG @Seabreeze_Reader As I say, I haven't actually used Twitter/X in a while, but it felt that just being on his platform was a tacit endorsement of the man and his views, so I've performatively "consciously uncoupled" ? 4w

BarbaraBB Same! 4w

Seabreeze_Reader @Bookwomble I basically did the same for my Fbook account about 6 years ago. I stopped using it (for the obvious reasons) then completely nixed my account. Even after all these years, I don't miss it one bit. 4w

Bookwomble @Seabreeze_Reader I still have my FB account due to the photos I have on there, and (theoretically) to view the pages created by deceased family members, but actually I haven't been on for about four years, and only went on there 2½ years ago because my uncle wanted me to post about my dad's passing. Otherwise, my mental and emotional health is better for not engaging, although it does mean that y'all Littens have to suffer me instead 😆 4w

Seabreeze_Reader 🤣👍 4w

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 4w

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Fan the Fame | Anna Priemaza

“We‘re changing this broken world one day at a time,” he says.
And I nod. Because at the very least, no one can ever say we didn‘t try.
#FanTheFame #AnnaPriemaza #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookperson #bookpeople #bookpassoion #bookpicture #bookpictures #bookphoto #bookphotos #bookphotograph #bookphotographer #bookphotography #bookart #bookartist #Contemporary #YoungAdult #Fiction #Fandom #Feminism #RealisticFiction #Romance #Canada 🖤🖤

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mcctrish

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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None of this is rocket science to anyone born before smart phones, had kids before the phone based childhood ( my kids born 99/02 are on the edge) and/or work in education. Girls and boyse are hit differently ( I only have boys) and at different ages. We need to return to a play based childhood at home and at school. Phones have no place at school and using them to entertain your child while you shop, drive, eat is a disaster

ChaoticMissAdventures I get torn about phones in schools being in the US. We have so many school shootings here. I want my nieces to be able to call or text us in lock down during a crisis. 1mo

mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures in the book they say phones should go in a lock box at school for the day - so that would be homeroom - and I guess available for emergencies. The gun problem in the US is a whole other problem some people are resistant to fixing 1mo

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DebbieGrillo

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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This is a MUST read for all parents and educators and everyone who has or works with children of any age. It will open your eyes to what tech companies are doing, knowingly, that harms our children's mental health and development. More importantly, it tells us how to take back our power and mitigate the damage.

CSeydel I‘m reading it now, although it‘s a tough read for someone whose kids are already in their 20s. 1mo

Estherhasredhair Sounds like a great read! I am among the youngest Millennials and I really think I was a pre-ipad kid. Many of my early memories are games I played on the computer and now I have a diagnosable mental disorders. I‘m glad that books and studies like this are being written. Here is hoping that we learn how to integrate the unavoidable tech and mental health. 1mo

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S3V3N

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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Meh. Not anything groundbreaking. Things we‘ve heard before, but I guess I believe the major problem starts at home. Parents not parenting anymore.

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ShelleyBooksie

Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World | Max Fisher

Thank you @TheLudicReader for my amazing #LLSS package!! Everything was beautifully wrapped and so thoughtfully chosen. I loooove the fall stationary and the coffee beans smell SO good. Thank you for spoiling me ♡♡♡

ShelleyBooksie @Deblovestoread , @Bookgoil 3mo

Deblovestoread Lovely package! 3mo

TheLudicReader I am so happy that you like everything, Shelley! 🥰 3mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 3mo

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reading.rainb0w

Shame on You: An addictive psychological thriller - for fans of FRIEND REQUEST | Amy Heydenrych

A couple more good quotes from the book, Shame on You, which I just finished. That was a ride. Social media can be so toxic. I think I'll stick to Litsy, where all we care about is #reading. 😅

#socialmedia #masks

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ms.gabourel

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed | Dashka Slater

Guilt, she says, is both helpful and healthy: “It‘s holding something we‘ve done or failed to do up against our values and feeling psychological discomfort,” she writes. Shame, on the other hand, is “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging—something we‘ve experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection.

ms.gabourel

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed | Dashka Slater

It doesn‘t heal all wounds
It doesn‘t erase the pain
What time does is
add
new pages
to your story
so when you scan the past
there‘s something else to read.

ms.gabourel (The poem is supposed to be in the shape of an hourglass)
I liked the use of this poem and how it was situated in the 2020 updates of the students lives. It relates well to the lawsuit and the settlements. It was interesting to see how everyone involved moved on with their lives but still held onto this incident. It's part of their stories. 3mo

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