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[LINK IN BIO] Also available on the iTunes Podcast store, "Posh Gibson Radio." Shout out to @poshgibson, @the_zulynette & @bangdollatang - y'all dope. #Motivation #SocialJustice #Advocacy #NonProfit #SelfDefinition #POC #PoshGibson #PoshGibsonRadio #POWERHOUSE #Zulynette #RicoDaGawd (at Hartford, Connecticut)

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#JesusIsBlack. #PatrickRicoWilliams Twitter: RicoDaGawd IG: Nerle.Oliver

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Because I'm a perpetual tinkerer I just added more videos to RicoVision.net. You're welcome, lol. Check it out, it's a media portfolio of sorts. #HEALTHYfellows #RicoDaGawd #RicoVision (at Nutmeg Television)

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LINK IN MY BIO, y'all should check it out. #RicoVision #RicoDaGawd

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So, guess who has a logo!!! Shout out to @zulynette34, she's dope and such, but you already knew that. #RicoDaGawd #RicoVision

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"Guess who's bizzzzzack?!!!" Shout out to the #AllAboutTheGame Podcast team, we knocked out another one. #NoApologiesSports #NoApologiesProduction #KrooshMusic #RicoDaGawd

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11.27.15... we got some things to say. Death is transformative, and some things just need to go. #ALittleBitOfDeathArtShow, you ready? #FollowThe34 #WillThereBeSnacks #RicoDaGawd (at CCSU Office of Community Engagement)

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We in 'dere!!! 11.27.15. #ALittleBitOfDeathArtShow, we all have tickets. Hit up the team, you don't want to miss it. #FollowThe34 #WillThereBeSnacks #RicoDaGawd (at CCSU Office of Community Engagement)

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“Five Problems with Social Media”

by Patrick “Rico” Williams

I’m taking on another 30 Day Writing Challenge, this is my first [Insert Sandman Simms’ voice (follow the link to get it)] “CHALLLLLLENGE!!!!” 

People - We are probably social media’s greatest flaw, the stalkers, silent lurkers, “holier than thou’ers,” keyboard killers, monitor Mafioso, loud and proud racists/misogynists/bigots et al. They devalue the entire experience and miss communication’s cardinal rule; you can disagree without being disrespectful… it isn’t a requirement. People frequently ruin social media and ensure that the internet is synonymous with unsafe spaces.

Commercials – I get it, I get it… sneakers are amazing and your Instagram boutique means a lot to you, it’s also admirable that your cousin thinks she’s a model. I can’t even take a moral high ground here, it’s your page, but for a second, please consider this; yes “Azalea F. Jordan’s Hair Emporium/House of Ribs & Tax Preparation Services” needs clientele, but how does playing French Montana behind a volley of Waterbury’s finest discount strippers in a 15 second video going to garner the support you need? Seriously, does the Connecticut Better Business Bureau really need these problems?

It’s as Addictive as 80’s Crack - …in it’s purest form... the crack that sells homes, destroys relationships and eventually leads to supervised visits. This is from someone who’s taken several social media hiatuses. There’s nothing more sobering that being in said hiatus and noticing how many times you reach for the phone you can ultimately do nothing with. “Well, I guess I’ll just look at these photo albums again… oh… there’s that family I lost.” Social Media is free crack, only now you need your valuables to be a fiend.

Tragedy Porn – Social media has the propensity to thrive off the worst of us, so we see the best fights “World Star” has to offer, obscene life threatening challenges, watch breakups occur in the realest of times, and are routinely blessed (because, I’m here for all the petty) with all the embarrassing details that should really just remain private. I know you’re hurt, I don’t need to know that you’re beefing with him because he left with your herpes riddled sister. While we’re at it though, PLEASE ALSO SHARE THE NEXT FAMILY REUNION, I hate cliff hangers.

Pretense – The amazing thing about branding is that you typically don’t actually have to be yourself, and without making an active choice a lot of us have become expert publicists. There’s a whole lot of perpetrating that happens on these digital skreets and it sucks. I’m not even just referencing the notorious “Twitter angles” phenomena, this goes a bit deeper. Social Media has gone from being aspirational to cats portraying lives and heaping on pressures on themselves they can’t live up to. So much so that telling folks to be themselves is a revolutionary measure. We spend too much time overlooking our inherent greatness while keeping up the facade. Fam, just be yourself.

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Allow myself to reintroduce... um... myself

Holla at a whoadie on twitter.

Trying to be more active there, but expect the same aintshittedness in more palatable, bite sized portions.