15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I’d actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.
I hung on all the way to Covid. And holy shit did the world get to be its most toxic when we were all quarantined, locked in our homes, alone with our nasty thoughts, with only the internet as our outlet…
With only the nastiest and the worst of our internal thoughts to sustain us, that’s when I hopped off the crazy train. When all that anyone had to offer was the most toxic and acidic of thoughts, that’s when I said “no more“. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… Deleted… thank God I never got on TikTok.
15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I’d actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.
I hung on all the way to Covid. And holy shit did the world get to be its most toxic when we were all quarantined, locked in our homes, alone with our nasty thoughts, with only the internet as our outlet…
With only the nastiest and the worst of our internal thoughts to sustain us, that’s when I hopped off the crazy train. When all that anyone had to offer was the most toxic and acidic of thoughts, that’s when I said “no more“. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… Deleted… thank God I never got on TikTok.