Yesterday I left a social media group that I have really enjoyed over the past few years. Essentially the group shared stories and images related to history. I learned a lot which helped me with my family history project. Yet, in the past few weeks, a group of individuals have corrupted the site with many rude and disrepectful comments about people, places and organizations. The tone and repetition of those comments seemed similar to the disrespectful tone, attitude and efforts of Donald Trump and his team of domestic terrorists--a sour, angry, unkind and bigoted attitude and speak that takes people down. I'll miss the good share on the site from many who took the site seriously and shared valuable images and information, but I won't miss the rude and disrespectful speak that a small group of individuals contributed.
I am an individual who enjoys the interchange on social media, and will continue totake part in platforms that allow me to block and report rude, disrespectful, hateful and dangerous individuals, but on threads where that's not possible, I'll leave if people like that begin to get involved.
At this juncture, I'm sterring my actions and words towards those who are positive, not those who harm humanity day after day.