Motley Kamuka

My opinions... I can't remember any meaningful engagement in MySpace. Just looked it up, it still exists. Supposedly people like music there. I like listening to new music on Spotify. I quit and restart when the ads come on or walk out of the room to do something.  I downloaded Whatsapp to communicate with someone, but I let that go. I don't like FB Messenger. People I don't know try to scam me there. They even warn you about it. I was so hoping Threads wouldn't show you people you don't follow, without asking, but yes, they do that. Bummer. So people can pay to be pushed into your consciousness. That's my biggest gripe about Twitter, you can block all the people you want, they're going to send you people who pay extra.  Twitter is my most groomed feed, I've blocked so many toxic people it runs pretty clean now. Sometimes people put pictures of the tweet instead of quoting the tweet, to get past blocks.  Supposedly 30 million people signed up for Threads...

I'm pretty sure I'm going to mindlessly go to Reddit and then catch myself. It will be hard to pull myself away on Monday and Tuesday, but pull myself away I will. Reddit was born in 2005, and I joined in March 2012. I know because the app tells me when my "birthday" is. I have almost 30k in karma, a useless carrot that counts the reward of others upvoting your posts and comments. There was a time when I was karma chasing, and I work hard to not to that, but at times I find I do have feelings about being downvoted. The Buddhist community I dwelled in steered away from superficial and perhaps literal interpretations of karma, but of course karma is the idea that you plant the seeds of what happens to you with your own agency in the sea of circumstances. It helps you to take ultimate responsibility for your life. Reddit was created in 2005 by two University of Virginia students, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian . August 2017, Reddit’s major shares were acquired by Adv...