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Do We Need Social Media?

Mike Weisser
4 min readNov 2, 2022

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Let’s say that a year ago Aunt Tillie died and left me some cash. Let’s say she left me with a million bucks or so. And let’s say that I decided I would put the money to work for me by buying social media stock.

After all, everyone knows that social media is the coming thing. When was the last time you walked into a restaurant and saw one diner sitting at a table who wasn’t on their phone? And it’s not like they were talking to someone else on another phone. They were all flipping from one pic or one video to the next and sharing it around.

That’s social media, okay? And that’s the reason I took some of the money left to me by Aunt Tillie and bought a million bucks or social media stock back on November 1, 2021.

Before I put my money in the market of course I did my research. I love doing research on the internet. It’s so much easier and certainly more reliable than going down to the library, squeezing into some crummy, uncomfortable chair in the reference room, then having to get up and thumb through all those dirty cards in the card catalog.

That’s what we called ‘research’ back when I went to school. Thanks God we have the internet which speeds everything up, including how long it takes me to get some information about this company or that company before I pour myself another cup of coffee and take a much-deserved break.

So, I did my research, and decided to buy stock in the following social media concerns:

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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