Twitter was once an excellent social media platform until it was transformed into X by you-know-who. You could really tailor it to your own areas of interest, as well as learn about what was going on in the world very quickly. It was relevant. With regret I got off that platform once it went over to the dark side.

FaceBook is awful and has been for a long time now. Once it was a useful way to keep in touch with family and friends. Now it just pushes irrelevant detritus your way: ads, groups, and causes.

Instragram is still okay, but the Meta folk are intent on filling it with ads and awful influencers. I like it for the beautiful images, not for someone bleating at my face about who-knows-what.

After Twitter died, I regretfully returned to mainstream news such as the ABCTV. But it seems they don’t teach proper journalism and reporting anymore. Or at least these people aren’t chosen as news presenters. I’m not interested in your random opinion, or worse still, woke government sanctioned opinion. I just want the news of the world. Especially not horoscopes and animal stories, or idiot dances on TikTok, and more than just localised events. What is actually going on in South America, or Africa, or France? The world is bigger than just China and the USA. Our national ABC Morning News in Australia is an embarrassment of trivial giggling trash. I find that SBS News is a much more interesting and professional media service, and it does include news from all over the world.

I tried Threads by Meta and liked it. It seemed to be kind and positive. Lots of booklovers are on there. But with Meta swamping out the ads again I hopped off as quickly as I hopped on. I realise the necessity for sponsorship, but they go overboard making it difficult to sort through the feed to find the things you really want to see and read about.

I heard about Bluesky and I am currently on there to see what it’s like. It seems very USA-centric at the moment. I wonder if that will change as more people become aware of it.

Maybe I need to stream a news service via YouTube. Where do you think is the best place for daily factual unbiased world news? Suggestions needed.