The launch of Meta’s Threads proves yet again we are too much in awe of the internet

THE GUARDIAN SAYS I came to social media to stay in touch with friends and family when I lived overseas. I stayed for its cornucopia of character development opportunities. As this last week has shown, they are on limitless offer.

We all know by now that should you wish to improve your resilience to harassment and abuse, be a woman, express a nuanced political opinion on the internet and – little lady – just you wait.

Having been on Twitter since one million years BC, I am as wizened from my beatings as Rooster freakin’ Cogburn. Yet this week’s internet lesson suggests for all the years I’ve been on social media, I’m not so wise.

Yesterday, unusually, I was not distracted from my work by Twitter because I was distracted by the launch of Mark Zuckerberg’s new Twitter alternative, Threads.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/instagram-threads-app-review