So I got on the new Meta Twitter killer app launched to not just rival Elon Musk’s newly purchased social media site on Thursday. The day the app was publicly launched and I have my first troll on Friday. From what I could see, Threads seemed to be better that Twitter as long as the Twitter morons stay away. For the best part, Meta platforms have a better record monitoring their site – I hope so.

Not that I care, all good for a laugh. These fools do not bother me, I must admit, I like to wind these fools up. I have not been a fan of Twitter, it is a pretty vile social media site full of personal attacks and blatant propaganda. There is no real moderation on this site, anonymous users pump out their vomit at a prestigious rate. I am surprised there is not more cases of defamation brought against people from this site.

I signed on early to see if it was better than other comparable social media sites. I prefer to post on Tumblr, I do not communicate on this site, I post the odd photograph taken on overseas trips or when travelling around Western Australia. I have plenty of followers on Tumblr and Pintrest, so I thought I might give Threads a try. Pintrest is an unsociable media site, online scrapbooking, I use it to promote my blog along with Tumblr.

Ok, so what did I learn from my first troll? Pretty standard really, fake profile that included a fake name and picture. So, the question I ask myself is should I engage them? If I go tit-for-tat with them? Well, that goes nowhere, but based on his response to my comment on The Australian Newspaper that I follow, he is a pretty standard left wing ALP lacky. So I responded with a link to a post I wrote a number of years back to Failed Labor Governments, I will see it that winds my troll up…