Social Media Escape Club

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.

Having a lot of social media followers or fame doesn’t guarantee it will sell. The singer Billie Eilish, despite her 97 million Instagram followers and 6 million Twitter followers, sold only 64,000 copies within eight months of publishing her book. The singer Justin Timberlake sold only 100,000 copies in the three years after he published his book.... See more

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

People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more

Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it's become a lot easier. We can return.

Since 2015, I’ve felt like social media was an addictive high-speed treadmill, designed to keep us running to exhaustion, getting increasingly worse with each year.