It’s no surprise to find that Jeremy Hunt is talking rubbish again this week. In a Guardian article we hear that he is proposing a universal social media limit for every child. Sound good? Maybe – except that there’s no evidence to suggest that this policy is necessary.
Politicians – pfff. Not worth wasting typing time on. But there’s an undercurrent here (of course) about controlling the masses, and I suspect Hunt and his cronies are trying to attempt to control our non-state-controlled means of communication. Of course social media can be misused, but the frequent dissing of social media, and the emphasis on studies purporting to show how social media is bad for us, in one way or another, just annoy me. Social media is so important to me – it’s how I communicate, participate, and learn. I was reminded of this earlier when Verena asked the following question:
Mine looks like this today #clmooc and #ds106 mainly but the others as well pic.twitter.com/7DPSrJifmk
— Sarah Honeychurch (@NomadWarMachine) April 26, 2018
Like anything else, it depends how it’s used. But don’t kill the messenger if you find others using it badly. For some of us, it is our community, our affinity space, our home.
Amazing isn’t it?! Despite all the evidence that austerity is increasing real hardship and actually devastating lives and destroying communities – hey – let’s look over here and blame social media! Yes – it is all about the state controlling us… That Foucault knew a thing or two! :-/