The detoxing from Twitter is a process. It is difficult for some to accept the fact that Twitter isn't a real place. There are millions of fake accounts, bots, and socks using automation to drive derision because it sells, and drives the product(yes you are their product) to provide data they can sell. We are social creatures & thinking you were engaging 20K people is a drug hiding in plain sight. Civility & empathy are dead there, its a corner stone here.

A lot of #Resistance people are being played.

Whether it's Occupy Democrats or overly prolific tweeters with big follower numbers, you may be hooked on people who just want to monetize you.

Who exactly are these people you are reading? What are their credentials? Their motives? Are they posting original material and analysis or simply copying others' work? Are they just pumping outrage?

Be especially careful who you give money to. Grifting operations span the political spectrum.

#politics

Nothing craters my faith in humanity faster than YouTube live chat. 😂

@th3j35t3r dude, the only reason I felt it was safe to be here was because you decided to run the damned thing - and I have ZERO clue who you are.

On #twitter, a massive Space happening right now. It feels like a wake.

Many high follower count users. All of them lamenting the value Twitter provided them.

IMO that's the biggest, massive failure of the platform. It stopped connecting people to people. It now connects people to audiences.

Those audiences are tuned for engagement, not for positive interaction. Remember that always.

Narrator: He's freaking the f@@K out.

#Introductions Retired from NASA. Interested in NASA and space exploration content Twitter name was _HerbBaker Hope to find some old friends here