X-it
A Welsh secondary school in Cardiff is to close its X account, over concerns about racism on the social media platform.
The head teacher also flap-flap-flapped as to whether the Welsh government and school inspectors should follow their lead.
But he didn't explain why a school should need an X account in the first place. A school's primary outfacing communications should be with pupils and parents, not the mouth-breathers on X, and to assume that they all are so desperately lonely and insecure as to have an X account seems to be completely braindead to me.
Instead, the school is moving over to Instagram. But that has the same drawback in my opinion.
Methinks that Matthew Evans and the governors of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf would be better off focussing on more direct methods of communication with their customers, for whom they have primary duty of care after all. Methods that don't require them to be exposed to the wilds of social media: both its Neanderthal users and the privacy-invading data scraping activities of the companies behind the platforms. [tinfoil hat]