seanessay.com I often think of social media in the “long form.” For example, the stories that caused Europeans to burn cell towers, or the villagers in India to kill strangers, including a government man who had been sent to tell them not to kill, or, in America, causing a man to take a rifle into […]
A Bad, Bad Day, With Comments
seanessay.com I’m having a bad, bad day It’s about time That I get my way From the Despicable Me soundtrack Partly I feel bad today because my body is sick, too sick to attend a nice party tonight. The only productive thing I did today was make some comments on other blogs. My own blog […]
Social Media Frustrates me Again
seanessay.com Note: my sister lives in cattle country too, but in another time zone, “in the caribou,” in British Columbia. I could be hopping mad right now. Or I could let out all my air, sinking into depression, disgust and saying, “What’s the use?” I’d rather be mad. I was driving home a half hour […]
Revenge and Surprise
seanessay.com Our Free Fall Friday writing was founded by Mary, a dear retired lady. As we met on Fridays to freely scribble away, she would sometimes speak of having “writer’s revenge.” Her mother had often been rude to her, so writing was Mary’s chance to tell her side of the story. Like I do. Can […]
Social Media Kills
seanessay.com Social Media Kills. I’d like this slogan on a sweat shirt, especially after that school teacher was beheaded in France. It turns out this week that one of his students, who wasn’t even in class that day of his alleged offence, lied to her father, who then, I suspect, lied on social media—It’s a […]
Good Media Ain’t Social Media
seanessay.com This week thugs stormed into the US capital building—because of what they believed. If they believed fake news, then was this news from normal, traditional media? No, it was from social media, beginning with tweets from their government’s Chief Executive Officer. As I see it, Social Media Kills. Today, curating what others have said, […]