Social Media Escape Club

Online is meant to aid in our reality, not be it

The internet and numbers and bots cannot and will not translate to real tangible communities. We get carried away by the fog that is the internet and its illusions, forgetting that there exists a physical, tangible reality, a reality that we must engage with.

You don’t need to be showing up everywhere. Nor do you need to be showing up all the time.

Are we going to keep compromising ourselves to cater for an ever-decreasing attention span?

The silent danger of social media is that it makes you feel like you’re social when you’re just giving your attention to one-sided, sucralose friendships with people who don’t even know who you are

Discoverability of smart web content relies on word of mouth and human curation.

While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers.

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"

Amelia asked me what I am orienting to in my practice and everything in my body said I was turning toward other things, none of it included Instagram. And saying out loud - I don’t feel good there is what sparked my exit.