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Anonymous Accounts: Should They Be Allowed?
They feed social media and society’s problems
I’d greatly prefer to write actual creative work, but I need to work to eat, so my days are consumed with nonfiction and business writing. But even creative work that I did sincerely, which would be found controversial by few, if any, normal people, has false 1 and 2 star “reviews” and spurious abusive commentary.
Why? Because I’m a woman working in male-dominated genres.
Shocker!
I know that when I address issues of blatant misogyny and abuse of women, I will receive ample commentary from keyboard warriors: nearly all of them are anonymous.
My understanding of this service, Medium, was that it was meant to be a sort of long form Twitter. It’s definitely a bit more interesting and educational to read on Medium than Twitter these days. I think if you want pornos, OnlyFans feeder accounts, and FOREX ads, Twitter is great. For anything else? Not so much. Whether Elon Musk makes many changes at Twitter or none, the future for the mini-blog platform doesn’t seem very bright. Trump pretty much put a stake in it — first by dominating it and manipulating it with his disturbing shenanigans, then by getting banned and overnight, halting the “social media careers” of a number of “influencers” devoted to…
