Social Media Escape Club

The internet has this amazing power in convincing us that we are being social on Facebook while providing breadcrumbs of what it means to actually be social.

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.

There are no tips, tools, tricks— no gimmicks— No amount of money, lack of it thereof that will save you from the thing that keeps you running back to the noise, to the avatars— and other drugs. It is You

many of us are addicted and don’t even come to the internet for joy, knowledge or connection anymore— we just do it because we are 100% wired into the machine and can’t break the cycle.

The first is more social than media. It’s driven by a backlash to performative, status-seeking social media: people want to spend quality time online with close friends and family. This means less Facebook and Instagram and more WhatsApp and Messenger.

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

The only way to get out of the spot you’re in is to do something that feels unreasonable , that’s unreasonable in the short term, that a similar person in a similar situation would say is unreasonable.

Creator platforms algorithmically incentivize us to create at the pace Wall Street and the market demand. This is why we’re pushed to create more and more. Not because our audiences are asking for it. Not because the world needs more of what we have to say. Because we as artists, the platforms, and their investors desire, to varying degrees,... See more