Posting Less

I almost never want to step up on a stage, pick up a microphone, and announce what I’m thinking to everyone I know. And so, I almost never Tweet.

Nor do most people. The vast majority of us sit back and consume.

And that’s great if the goal is to numb our mind safter a long day of work. Or if it’s to keep up on news.

But insofar as the point of

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Just because you have a ‘platform’ ( a spurious notion to begin with - I mean, don’t even get me started) does not mean you owe your voice to whoever makes demands of it . You do not have to draw attention to every charitable cause and global disaster equally once you pass some magical follower threshold. You are not a news broadcast station with a... See more

But the villain here is not necessarily the Internet, or even the idea of social media; it is the invasive logic of commercial social media and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction. It is furthermore the cult of individuality and personal branding that grow out of such platforms and affect the w

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