Thanks for the reply and it wasn't long winded. I have never had a facebook or twitter account and to be honest I'm not planning on changing that now. I knew what their gig was from a quite a while ago, so refused to sign up. Of course the other options you mentioned, are available to us all.

On another note, I'm not sure if you realise this or not, but you also have a few people on this platform targeting yourself and other independent/left leaning journalists. It's being done by downvoting your posts and your comments section, to try and silence certain opinions. Anything that is anti-war/anti establishment is the common thread and pattern. It doesn't really hurt you that much and is something you probably won't even notice. It does however annoy the crap out of your smaller followers. This is not random or coincidental (deliberate down voting patterns documented) and is a censorship campaign through a network of smaller accounts. Take a closer look at the votes and notice how some of them are negative.

I know your are extremely busy, but you may want to have a quick read through a recent post I wrote about this very topic, as I actually think it's an attempt (on a much smaller scale) of emulating the censorship campaign on other platforms. How's that for a long winded response? Anyway here's the link to the post. Just a note that they are starting to use other accounts, that were not in my original post.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@palikari123/targeted-flagging-of-posts-and-comments-from-accounts-heather2000-and-thinkingtime