You shouldn't use Facebook as it undermines democracy, spreads fake news and is destroying the fundamental tenets of paid for media. Nor should you engage with the poisonous cesspit which is Twitter. As for Amazon? Nothing but a bunch of contemptible, tax dodging fuckers who are strangling the life out of everything they compete with.
Except our Website is embedded with "share on Facebook" tabs. And you can log onto comment using your Facebook ID which means we're using Facebook to track you. And, of course, we want you to like and follow our Facebook pages.
Twitter? We've embedded links to it as well. And I'm on it, tweeting day and daily. As our most of our contributors and columnists. Our Twitter feed is one of the most popular in the UK.
Amazon? We use their Cloud hosting service for our website. And our business reporting? All via Amazon. And we'll happily talk up Amazon Prime shows. My new book is also available to buy either as a hardback, on Audible or as a Kindle download via the Amazon website. We've also introduced an Alexa option.
"Er, doesn't it then make it a bit hypocritical for you to advise others to disengage from Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon when you won't do the same?" they ask. "No" we reply "it's different, so it's okay for us to embrace these organisations, but not you. Why? Because you're blind about what they are doing, and we aren't. And, no, that doesn't make us willing participants. Now if you'd just kindly fuck off with your unfounded accusations. Don't bother us about this again as I don't want to have to block you on Facebook or Twitter. Do I make myself absolutely crystal clear?"
