Hence, the wise part.

I have never bothered with any kind of social media platform, I don't even like texting on the phone. This forum here at Wincustomize and Stardock is the only place I communicate publicly , because I'm a skinner and I've been a member of the community here for so long.

-- Ace --

P.S. - ummm...ok , I create icons so maybe I'm not "technically" a skinner

^ This

LOL ....awww.....thanks   

Saying things like Facebook is not for me without further investigating how to use it and learn what you can do and alter a LOT of settings to make it fit your needs and use, is like installing a product from Stardock and never alter any of the settings and say it does not behave like you want it to, and never use it again - ever.

I never get e-mails from Facebook. I never see ads. I never see posts from people I don't know. All I see are posts from friends/acquaintances and groups that I have joined including a very useful closed/private one with things related to my work. Some groups are not that different from the forum here.

Also, Facebook Messenger is a full fledged text/photo/video/phone communication platform that I would prefer any day compared to my phone. SMS/MMS on phones are great, but come on, I doubt you have access to 1920x1080 or larger on a big screen, great sound and not to forget the keyboard on your phone.

I still pretty vividly remember Leo Laporte doing a segment on his radio show late 2006 or so about this new little application called Twitter & how you could 'follow' accounts of people you found interesting, mostly computer nerds like Leo.  Seems like Kim Komando mused about it around that time as well.  Neither had any idea how the cancer would grow.

Never appealed to me, never had an account or handle, though I lurk on 3 or 4 accounts for simple entertainment value, one of whom will be remembered as the Will Rogers or Mark Twain of blogging (tough call between them).  Don't have a Facebook page.  I'm lucky to get what I need to get done IRL these days, though I must confess to spending too many hours here back in the late 90's & 2000's when political discussions were way more fun.

It’s selection bias. And I don’t think Twitter is the arbiter of “the truth”.

Facts are facts and that's troubling to some folks. Darn old facts always seem to spoil things.

This is a ridiculous and petty justification.  The incidence of voter fraud is quite low while disenfranchising voters through gerrymandering is far more common.

Once upon a time we mailed in our tax forms.  We didn't hear any cries to stop doing that just because some mailed tax forms had "errors".

I think the motivations for declaring mailed in ballots can't be trusted is dishonest and a prelude for attempt to nullify votes in an upcoming election. 

[Learn the facts on Voter Fraud]

In reality any method of voting can be suspect. Go to your local....cast a vote...get your name ticked off....go to another outside your area...vote as absentee ...say 'no' to 'have you voted already today'...fraud...illegal....but too late to be corrected.  Compulsory voting at least dilutes the fraudulent activity.  Last few years i've done postal voting just to avoid the running of the gauntlet of all those how-to-vote handouts...and the salmonella in a bun called sausage sizzle....

That is your opinion.  And you are entitled to your opinion.  

If Twitter wants to be a glorified forum with politically motivated selective enforcement then that's their business.  But if it's just a forum with left-wing moderators then I'll just spend my time here instead.

Also, I don't really want to spend my time on this forum reading and participating in political debates.  If I want to listen to people who know little about a given topic but insist on espousing their hyper-partisan views I'll read Facebook. 

If someone wants to post half-baked political opinions go to JoeUser.com and it has a political area. There you can express how much you hate "the other side" all you want.