Let’s take a Twitter vacation, seriously

Let’s quit Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, cold turkey-style. It sounds crazy, but if we all kicked our social media addiction, at least for a few months, I believe it would do wonders for our nation’s collective psyche.

Whenever I venture into the wilds of my own Twitter feed, I’m constantly exposed to vulgarity, to rudeness, to outright hatred—and that’s just when I’m looking at sports tweets. Things are even worse when it comes to tweeted political debates.Photograph courtesy of Pxhere

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

July 9, 2018

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Desperate times, they say, call for desperate measures. So with that in mind, I’ve come up with a desperate proposal: just for the summer, let’s all of us delete the social media apps currently populating our phones and computers. What I’m saying is, let’s quit Facebook an...

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