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Social media should I stay off it?

Joe

This is a daft thing i know, but earlier I made the mistake of commenting on something in a local FB group.  Someone had posted a lost driving licence they found outside Tesco, I said I didn't understand why people posted this on FB and went on to suggest they could've handed it back in to Tesco, popped it round or posted it.  All logical to me. 

I got quite an aggressive responsive accusing me of being gods gift and was I having a bad day.  I've smoothed it over, but I'm thinking maybe I need to come off social media or general forums areas where people just don't get what I might be saying.  This is not the first time something like this happens and I find it quite distressing.  Should I just disengage? What do you guys do?

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  • It can be difficult for an autistic individual to see the forest for the trees sometimes; that is the trouble with social media, it is a endless sea of grammatical illiteracy, which the literal mind of people with AS can have trouble with, especially with their all-or-nothing mindsets.

    Having said that people with AS can find a-lot of use in social media; but it is useful to consider that the subject can be as thick with style-less refuse, as it is with empty logic.

    So have fun; but here be monsters!

  • in reply to DeSpereaux

    That is a great summary, in my opinion.  I don't agree, but you put a cogent case really well.

    I think my summary line would be;

    "Be cautious in social media, it is the monster."

    Thanks for helping me crystallise my thought.

    Kind regards - Number.

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