Why did the housing date get pushed again?

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I don't use social media anymore and rely on their website, you know the place that should have all of the information, and not just a third-party platform.

It's reasonable to want this to be the way data is kept. Unfortunately, data on the Internet isn't organized that way, and it doesn't appear to be moving in that direction, i.e., for information on X brand product you would only ever go to X brand's first-party website.

I don't "use social media" either - in the sense that I don't "use it" like a teenager would use it today. I don't post TikToks, I don't tweet all day, I don't post things on Instagram or Snapchat, I never say "like and subscribe, be sure to catch my live stream, follow me on all socials, check out my new content house." No, that is absolutely not me. IMVHO all that garbage can be drop-kicked off the planet.

However, something like Twitter can be used as a fairly powerful data retrieval tool, if that's all you want it to be. Shut off all notifications and check when you want to check. Follow only those that provide information you'd like to be made aware of. When I open my Twitter feed, it's not filled with a bunch of eye-popping pictures for the algorithm, nor pictures of peoples' lunch, nor the latest on Depp vs. Heard (for god's sake, lol.) I see notices from SE and other companies whose games I play. I see new music I want. I see what my family is doing, and that's about it.

I mean, absolutely fair if you just don't want to use it for your personal reasons - I totally respect that. I just wanted to make the point that one can indeed "use social media" in a fair and reasonable way without becoming part of the social media "scene".

Secondary to that, I wanted to point out that going to a first-party website for information in 2022 isn't the most efficient way of retrieving data. I'd love it to be, but it just isn't. Choose any first-party manufacturer website for video games, electronics, cars, food, clothing, ISPs, medicine, or virtually any other popular item, and you'll find that site to contain less information, and in a more disorganized manner, than third-party sites.