These days I wonder about the long-term survivability of the human race. Maybe that's not the best word to use, but I really wonder if we can sustain the human race in the era of inhuman online activity.
We're hit with auto messages of every type and flavor on Twitter. I gave up on Facebook because I got tired of it trying to run my life with likes, shares, and the latest rants of the day. At least on Twitter, I can mute words and boy do I have words muted!
However, everyone thinks that automated bots and replies are good. Even Twitter does it. Have you ever tried to contact Twitter help and support? Good luck if you reach anything but their automated bots that give you canned responses.
I try to play by the rules on Twitter. I try to genuinely make a difference on what I share on Twitter. Yet, for some reason in the past two weeks, I've been locked out of Twitter. In the first instance, I wasn't able to get it unlocked until late into the following day. This more recent time, I was able to get it unlocked because they ACTUALLY called my phone (unlike the last time).
I just wish there were humans you could talk to that would explain why things happen. Twitter so hates the automated bots, but yet they do exactly that which they despise. They don't have any controls in place for stopping the porn and hate like they should, yet they will slap you for some unknown infraction or mistake by locking your account.
Some days, it really gets old dealing with everything being automated. I'm tired of my direct message inbox filling up on Twitter with all the "against the rule" spam messages that get sent to me, including TrueTwit spam messages.
No one seems to care. No one wants to be human. Everyone just wants to blast everything to everyone all day long. That is not human. That is inhuman.
Many times, I've tried to respond back to the automated messages, but I never get a response. I scratch my head and wonder - then why send it to me? You're nothing more than annoying when you do this.
I think we have to pull our heads out of our collective backsides and start to figure out how to at least be human. Right now, we're failing ourselves and the world in the behaviors and activities we do.
If we keep going down the path like we are, places like Twitter and the users that spam people will degrade us to a point where inhuman will be the norm. Surely we've got to be better than that. Surely we've got to engage our mind, body, and heart together as one.
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