Stop Social Sharing Everything, The Growing Facebook Crisis.

Today on Good Morning America, I heard about some new crisis is brewing with Facebook:

The advice that was given was that people should make sure their Instagram accounts are not linked to their Facebook page.  

Living in a time where it seems like we are simply going from one crisis to another, is easy to lose track of what's important in our lives. Socialization, is not simply going online and getting lost in the virtual world. Socialization used to mean (amongst other things) getting school children ready for the real world by going to school. Socialization is the biggest reason that parents who considered home schooling their children, decided to place their children in a public or private school. Yet even this great and hallowed social mixing ground for children has become littered with endless debate. There's no discussing the crisis brewing in the nations's public schools without discussing the Covid-19 pandemic, interrupting the day to day live's of millions of public school children.

Online learning is inferior to in-person education. Yet many people these days use social media to express their own personal point of view seeking to pass it off as fact. This phenomenon is currently happening across so many platforms, that one might wonder where will people go (when news sources have come into so much controversy and earned such a bad reputations) to find out what is really going on it the world? 

  

An editorial (such as this one) is easily utilized as a fact (be it false or true) on the social blogosphere. All someone needs to do is to put together a website (it's not so difficult these days) write a well worded editorial, and post a link to it on Facebook, and suddenly the author of the editorial has become a quotable expert! 

Stephen C. Sanders

February 17, 2022  9:05AM EST