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The behavioral habits encouraged by social media make this task infinitely more difficult.

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My own experience can be summed up as follows: But here I run up against a problem. It was on Twitter that I started to indulge my antagonism toward the bipartisan pro-capitalist political elite and discovered an alternative politics that appealed to this new antagonism. This process eventually led me to become an elected leader in my chapter of DSA and a writer for Jacobin. People are logged on.

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We face a choice: The problems for the Left posed by social media are largely, as he argues, psychological. People identify strongly with their social media avatars, for example, and react in defensive, irrational, and even pathological ways when their avatars come under attack, because they feel acutely that their image and reputation are at stake.

They also use their personal avatars to attack others in order to solicit engagement and build social capital, a temporary salve for feelings of isolation and impotence. An epic burn is rewarded with an avalanche of faves, and for a moment the sensation mimics solidarity and empowerment. All this has me thinking: One way to do this is to disaffiliate social media accounts from our names, given or assumed, and divert our energies to posting on institutional accounts.

Others can be tasked with taking and collecting photos and making great videos , graphics, and memes to share on these accounts in service of the collective propaganda effort.

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Venues for this might include a chapter website or blog, an internal listserv or discussion board, national DSA platforms like Democratic Left and Socialist Forum or, for members of the International Socialist Organization, Socialist Worker , a personal blog or podcast, newspaper op-eds and letters to the editor, submitting to Jacobin and other socialist and progressive websites and magazines, and so on.

We can rely on the institutional accounts and the remaining personal accounts to share our contributions. The upside to this approach is that it prioritizes our ideas over our identities, and therefore runs a smaller risk of triggering the panicked impulse to reputational self-defense and the narcissistic drive for popularity that spurs most online infighting. The second option is to keep our personal social media accounts but make a concerted effort to re-imagine how we use them. We see this hyper-individualization in the way people use social media: A less privatized and less neoliberal approach to personal social media accounts is to treat them as tools for collective political education and agitation.

We can try to think of our personal accounts as having the same potential function and utility that institutional accounts do: Before we take a dig at a comrade we disagree with, salivating at the thought of likes and retweets to come, we might ask: Might I level the same critique, and more productively, by digging up and sharing something thoughtful and eloquent that makes an opposing point to the one I disagree with? With each day that passes, my loathing for social media, especially Twitter, grows and grows.

Mainstream media is occasionally and perhaps increasingly sympathetic to our perspective, but in the end, news outlets owned by our class enemies will always side with our class enemies. This means we have to put in extra effort to get our ideas across to people. Log off or out go through the procedures to conclude use of a computer system. Same on the OALD , this means they are synonyms.

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If you check on Wikipedia, they are given as corresponding expressions, too. In computer security, a login or logon also called logging in or on and signing in or on is the process by which individual access to a computer system is controlled by identifying and authentifying the user referring to credentials presented by the user. To log out is to close off one's access to a computer system after having previously logged in. The computer, because it does so many different things for many different people, and because applications of that computer abstract all the nitty-gritty hardware from the "user experience", is thought of in many different metaphorical or analagous contexts.

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These various analogies we use to describe computers call for differing prepositions when describing the tasks, and sometimes two prepositions, coined in the context of a particular computer analogy, become commonly used. This is because I think of the computer as a part of the networked IT system, and when I enter my username and password, the action of me beginning work is "logged in" to the computer and the system behind it. I think of it similar to if I punched a time clock every day, and "clocked in" and "clocked out". However, "log on and log off" could have similar analagous meaning to someone: There are many other terms used.

For instance, I see "sign in" and "sign out" a lot in websites; GMail and the BofA website use these terms to refer to their security session management.

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If they are exactly synonymous, which is standard? Daniel 47k 59 I respectfully beg to differ.