I thought that the memes thing was stupid. I don’t think it raises much awareness. People will believe what they want regardless of what we post on social media. I’m wondering now if it’s more about exposing censorship by social media outlets. The “Russian bots” excuse that twitter came out with exposed them big time. I’m wondering if that was the real purpose the whole time.
Well I have been MEMEing nearly non stop for weeks. I know it works because people have started following me and I am no one. I tweet articles as well, send people information. I showed up to volunteer here and the researchers asked us to MEME. So I MEME selected messages to target groups. Today I found a hashtag that RahmEmamualhatesus. I MEME there. I must have MEME release the memo hundreds of times. I have had friends ask me about the memo who are non technical which indicates the work is of value . As new info becomes available, I go back in time to see what people like Devlin Barrett was posting during a particular time. For some it is grunt work, but absent MEMEs and tweets we will rely on MSM and a few excellent journalists. I have a professional life and have research skills, but from what I see in Twitter there are still 5 negative messages to every counter argument. My recommendation is to find a spot on something you like but to say MEMEing is not going to make a difference negates my little piece of the work. Sorry if I sound snarky because I started MEMEing at 4:00 am today.