Celebrities vow to quit social media
As clickbait goes, celebrities posting tweets pledging to quit social media takes the cake. Pam Anderson is the latest to take the pledge. But in seeking more fame, she just looks lame.
Of course, social media platforms are rife with social malignancies, physical dangers, and moral hazards. Thus, if celebrities made public service announcements (PSAs) about quitting, it might hold some social value. The problem is that, for most, quitting social media is like quitting smoking – it rarely lasts.
I have raged against social media for years. The following partial list of titles attests to this:
- “Why I hate Twitter,” February 1, 2013
- “The ‘False Reality‘ of Social Media. Duh,” November 4, 2015
- “‘UnLike’ Facebook for Facilitating Trump’s ‘Post-Truth’ Run to the White House,” November 18, 2016
- “Selfie-Centered Social Media and the Death of Intimacy,” November 26, 2016
- “Cambridge Analytica Used Facebook Users as Facebook Intended,” March 20, 2018
- “Facebook Exploiting You Like a Pimp Exploits Prostitutes,” December 20, 2018
- “Re Your Social-Media Condolences. Thanks, But No Thanks!” July 25, 2019
- “Social-Media Anonymity Just Gives License to Menace,” February 20, 2020
I’ve also featured confessionals from social media engineers, warning about these malignancies, dangers, and hazards. Here, too, the titles alone to my commentaries speak volumes:
- “Facebook ‘Like’ an Infectious Disease,” January 24, 2014
- “Facebook Friends?! Try Facebook’s Guinea Pigs,” July 8, 2014
- “Zuckerberg Designed Facebook ‘Like’ an Opioid,” November 13, 2017
- “Confessions of Facebook Programmers/FAD Pushers Continue,” December 14, 2017
Yet, to this day, I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness, akin to John the Baptist. Even the way social media facilitated the Jan 6 insurrection has done nothing to chasten or caution users.
But there’s truth in the adage sex sells. And social media exploit this adage in spades. That’s why Christian girls are spreading “the gospel” on OnlyFans – as if soft porn has anything to do with Jesus Christ.
Pam Anderson says she’s quitting
According to The Independent (January 26, 2021), the perennial beach babe is finally coming to her senses about social media.
The former Baywatch star and model announced on Instagram on Tuesday that ‘this will be my last post on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.’
Besides, Pam Anderson saying she’s no longer interested in social media is like Snoop Dogg saying he’s no longer interested in weed. Ha! Hooked!
iPINIONS thinks she’s bound to relapse. I’d even bet good money that, before spring is sprung, she’ll concoct some flimsy excuse for showing up somewhere on social media to get her fix.
Moreover, she’ll likely return to flaunt her looks, not to champion anything of any socially redeeming value. Indeed, she’ll probably show up on Instagram, the platform where narcissism is the thing.
That is, of course, unless she gets her fix by showing up for a record-setting 50th appearance in Playboy magazine. Well, a boy can fantasize, can’t he?
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