What it looks like to leave social media
Coming of age in the time of social media has inflicted a great deal of psychological trauma upon me and those I love. Nary a birthday goes by without me wondering how many people posted “Happy Birthday!!” on my wall. For a while, that number determined how good of a birthday I’d have. For this and this alone Zuckerberg should be tried before the H... See more
and baby makes four???
I left pretty much all tracking websites (last.fm, goodreads, letterboxd) and let me tell you, it feels great to not carry a big list of numbers around with me, I’m like a tiny fluffy cloud of indifference floating through existence, broadcasting nothing and just taking it the view.
Paulo Coelho Alves (@pcalves@social.lol)
I realized one of the key reasons why social media makes me feel so out of joint with the world, and with myself. I think all of these ideas—the messages implicit in these mediums—are wrong.