The danger in depersonalising your online outlet

Paraphrasing the words of the legendary Don McLean:

A long, long time ago 

I can still remember how that lifestyle used to make me smile

And I knew if I had my chance 

That I could let those people dance

And maybe they'd be happy for a while

But February made me shiver

With every blogpost I'd deliver

Bad news on the doorstep

I couldn't take one more step...

Awoke at 0523 this morning and there was, in the inbox, a message from the Gulf of America, a quick look at X saw Amelia following me and I followed back, there was the subject of this post after that ... yet another govt minister resigning but then a Ggl Blgr panel said that I could not load a picture of all that unless I enabled cookies, which I had done.

Censorship is certainly what they'd like to have us accept as "normal" today ... and that leads to my next point, in the words of the legendary blogger Tom Paine ... that I, Jimbo, do tend to blog in a highly personalised manner, don't I?

Yes Tom, I do, because we're dealing with other humans, friendly, hostile or indifferent, coz it's better to keep things human to human, even though we use tech to reach one another.

Interestingly for me at least, a glance at Tom's link shows he very much writes now in a personalised way, I still do too but ... at UHC across the way, our subject matter is very much a news channel, with features thrown in to break the horror, shifting as much worldwide news as possible into as few column inches as possible ... a quite depersonalised way to blog.  Julia and Grandpa have their styles ... so does DAD, which brings me to monikers.

I am not remotely interested in tracking you ... I couldn't anyway with Ggl Blgr's newish comment system ... but I do ask, if you choose Anon or Unknown, that you humanise your comment to the point where we at least have some invented name to respond to in comments, that you are not a bot in other words.

Eventually, we do all come back to humans of good intent, versus spam, bots and trolls. We'd like to think we're dealing with someone adding to the info on the table, whether or not we agree on one particular point or another.

However, Wokery is right out, meaning the brainwashed.  Let me illustrate. There are people on X who are dyed-in-the-wool Reformers, whereas I'm a Restorer now ... what a bunfight before Gorton and Denton ... yet we still follow one another, even if deeply disagreeing over maybe 20% of what's going on.

In other words ... civil discussion, not hostile trollery.  Every site, every platform, needs to sort that question out.  Civil.  Civilised.