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Every so often I find myself scrolling through Twitter/X and damn, what a cesspool. But also, so many people are still hanging out? I wish social media wasn’t so gross these days.
Well would you look at that, I can officially tweet from my own website. "Officially" of course not meaning that it's auto-posted to Twitter, but tweet-like notes can now have a permanent home here.
Debating between social media and posting on my own site as if I have any followers, or any reason to post anything other than a vague feeling that I … should post things?
… He tweeted to nobody lol
A little joke I like to make sometimes (offline, where people think I'm funny) is that somewhere around 2012, something happened that caused our world to splinter off, and we are now in The Bad Timeline. But the world has always been a little bit batshit, I suppose, and we have probably always been in The Bad Timeline. It's just gotten really hard lately not to be aware of it.
I shouldn't have to care about celebrity court cases, or what company a billionaire idiot wants to buy, or whether a dictator who lives just an ocean away will decide that nuclear war doesn't sound that bad. I shouldn't have to worry about microplastics or how much carbon is in the atmosphere or whether I'll ever get the chance to see a healthy, vibrant, and unbleached coral reef. I can hardly take two steps without seeing something new to fret over. It's stressing me the fuck out.
I could, of course, just stop reading the news. Delete Twitter from my devices. Plug my ears and hum happy songs to myself whenever someone brings up the state of the world. Ignorance is bliss, right?
Except it obviously fucking isn't. So I should organize a protest, or donate to a worthy cause or two, or dedicate my life to making the world a better place!
Except I have to work and I'm really kind of tired, and the bills need to get paid, and have you seen the price of groceries lately? Add that to the list of things to worry about.
I haven't been able to give up Twitter or Instagram, but removing Facebook and Facebook Messenger from all of my devices has been an absolute joy and I don't regret it at all. Sure, maybe some long lost family members would have a harder time getting in touch, but like... whatever, Facebook is evil.
I haven't yet deleted my account yet, though. I suppose that should be a thing I do soon.
Next to go: Instagram (aka Instagram by Facebook)
Twitter: maybe? As long as I stay off the trending tabs, there's no issue - might have to do some research into alternative apps that let you not look at those things so much.