BEDRIDDEN LIFE

Nuts, Thoreau, & ‘Why is Engagement Farming so Wrong?’

Or Tweets, let’s be honest

David Conte
2 min readAug 11, 2024

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We’re all just nuts, waiting to be cracked open. (I’ve no idea what I’m saying.)

Why is engagement farming so wrong? Isn’t the whole point of social media to be social? So you act fake and sell yourself a little. I mean, what’s the harm? Don’t US presidential candidates do that?

One of the biggest crimes against man is when a person wishes summer away.

“Oh, what a feeling, when we’re dancing on the ceiling.”

This sometimes waking up with a song stuck in my head is getting weird. I wouldn’t mind, but it’s like I have a playlist for grocery store shoppers on up there.

I must say, being on Facebook since 2008, I have not seen any insanely wild displays of inappropriate behavior or criminal occurrences by friends/users in that time.

For example, I’ve seen nobody I know do a FB Live on their way to robbing a bank.

No posts about “I’m so over this country, I’m moving to New Zealand in the next 48 hours.”

No photos of anyone sitting in the corner of the public library clipping their toenails.

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