Using Facebook for UFO information is iffier than ever

Copyright 2018, InterAmerica, Inc.

A review of three books in TLS (the Times Literary Supplement) of June 8, 2018 showed that social media, especially Facebook, is a drag on society and one’s psyche.

Marcus Gilroy-Ware, in Filling the Void [Repeater Books], “… cites numerous studies that show our consumption of social media to be associated with decreased life satisfaction and body security … Why speak of a ‘news feed’, for example when such a large proportion of the feed’s content does not consist of news in any traditional sense.”

“Gilroy-Ware argues [reviewer David Patrikarakos writes] that once, where, we could separate depression and hedonism, people now suffer depressive hedonia, which is not defined by ‘an inability to get pleasure, so much as [by] an inability to do anything else except to pursue pleasure … [to counter] that sense that ‘something is missing.’”

Reviewer Patrikarakos continues: “Into this ‘void’ have stepped social media, which provides not meaningful relationships …[instead replacing them] with hits from Facebook ‘likes’ [and] the vertiginous rush of a tweet gone viral.”

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner in The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, oddity, and antagonism online [Polity] argue about the ambivalence of users of social media, citing how there are Facebook fan pages for the Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris and the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

Zeynep Tufekci in Twitter and Tear Gas [Yale University Press] tells readers that while social media can mobilize action, it is so diffuse, [the] “ideal for getting boots on the ground … is ill-suited to guiding them over the longer term.”

Then CNBC reported July 26, 2018 this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/facebook-on-pace-for-biggest-one-day-loss-in-value-for-any-company-sin.html?__source=newsletter%7Cbreakingnews

Facebook’s stock has had the largest loss-in-value in the stock market’s history, because of stasis and loss in membership and other problems.

Ufologists, hoping to archive their thoughts and material(s) about UFOs, using Facebook, will be sh*t out of luck when Facebook fails altogether, which it will, just as MySpace did.

Putting one’s UFO eggs in the Facebook basket is a disaster of a kind waiting to happen.

While UFO material is no great shakes in the evolution or cultural heritage of mankind, it will still be a loss – a meager one admittedly – but still a loss.

And UFO Facebookers are fooling themselves if they think the social medium site is a boon for them and their thoughts.

They have been forewarned, but you know UFO buffs (ufologists): they don’t have a sensible bone in their bodies, just a non-sensible one in their heads.

RR