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When I came back to blogging after years of being in and out of it, I did so mostly because I wanted to leave social media behind.
Sure, some people never stopped. There are people who have been blogging for twenty-plus years while the rest of us were tweeting away. I admire, envy, and wish I were one of them.
Because I wasn't, I ended up carrying a lot of social media assumptions into blogging, and they're starting to surface.
Taste dictates what music you listen to, your favorite food, your drink of choice, your clothing style, the books you read, the TV series you follow, the movies you watch — and rewatch. How you speak, how you flirt, how you react to other people. How you present yourself to the world.
Beyond that, taste dictates who you're friends with, and that's either because they match what you value, or because you appreciate their own taste. In some wonderful cases, it's both of these things.
Social media goes against all that.
I removed Instagram from my phone two weeks ago. Well, all social apps, but Instagram is the main one for me.
Musk has made it really easy not to go back to Twitter. Props for that.
Threads is slowly creeping into being a true replacement for Twitter, toxicity and all. It may come as a surprise to no one that the problem isn’t the platform, but the people pouring their shit into it.
Instagram is still the one app I’m using to go watch ads with scattered updates from my friends.
This quote from Leif K-Brooks, Omegle’s Founder is spot on and feels painfully prophetical:
I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.
See you on the other side (after the ad break).
Today is the last day of my 30 days without social media. These are some bullet points of my experience:
I used to believe that social media kept me connected to the people I love, like, and enjoy, but I now realize that this couldn't be further from the truth. Although social media gives me the impression that I'm in touch with many individuals, broadcasting random thoughts and out-of-context ideas ultimately leads to a lack of genuine communication. The worst thing is that this false sense of connection provides me with temporary satisfaction that prevents me from forming real connections with the people I care about.