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was talking to good friends who're frustrated at how social media influences their lives and realised that social media takes you out of control of the direction of your own life, floating along a river flowing godknowswhere, experiencing your own life only in brief glimpses

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for this reason i am going to almost entirely stop using twitter&co, effective immediately; if i look like i've seriously returned, yell at me; this is not an april fools' joke; if i do elaborate on this at all, it will be as a post on my blog, not as a tweet thread; cya

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i guess i should address what the “almost” in “almost entirely stop using twitter&co” means:

  • it does mean, in general, not posting. you'd think that's a lesser evil, but no, i must kill the Tweet Voice
  • i'll check notifications… once a day?
  • i'll check profiles occasionally
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