Fearing Social media

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AFRAID of social media. Even though I somehow sense that social media can be a good way to promote a website or blog, I still don't do it. Actually, I think I signed up for both Facebook and Twitter one fine day a while ago, but I never used either account, which, as far as I know, are still siting there, doing...nothing. Facebook is evidently a great way to rediscover old friends you haven't seen or heard from in forty years, so, I really should give it a try, since there are many such people in my life, or rather, not in my life. But still. Social media, unless I am greatly mistaken, is somewhat of a cesspool, isn't it? A quagmire of anger, hatred, vulgarity, and enmity, isn't it? How do people put up with that, by ignoring it? Social media has become the primary way to spread fake news, of which there is currently an explosion, engendered party by the recent election, and by the fact that the election resulted in the election of a president who uses social media especially twitter, to spread fake news. Its almost as if Donald Trump is single handedly inspiring an outpouring of lies, and fake news, merely by setting the example. The United States of Amnesia has always been a culture fond of escapism;perhaps all the fake news on social media is nothing other than the latest form of escape. Once upon a time there was a popular form of social media called "chatrooms", unless chatroom are not considered to be a form of social media. But they were once far more popular than they are now. Chatrooms were often nasty places where people argues and developed actual hatreds and feuds. That might be in part why people lost interest in them. Will twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and the rest, someday lose their popularity and be replaced by something else? Probably. Maybe I should say, "hopefully".