I am clearly late to your post but am delighting in the language you use and pseudonyms (is that right?) for the platforms. Such excellent points, all, and especially this (for me): "Just because a thing involves words and reading, or “connecting” with “likeminded” others, doesn’t mean it can’t be bad for you." Such wise words to remember.
This came at just the right time for me! It gave me goosebumps at just how right. I have been struggling with the idea of just letting fb go - into the wind! It’s harder than I thought. You are my hero! Thanks for writing this!!!
So glad, Denise! Let’s be here to put into the world what we want to see there--which also means recognizing when a habit isn’t serving that work at present!
Great article, thanks. I've reduced my sm time substantially but there is more to do. Not sure I can go cold turkey because - cat pics- but I'm getting there. Sm increasingly seems to be a mda place populated by sad, angry and slightly crazy people. I hope not to be one of them!
Thanks for reading! Right, it’s totally not about some supposed inherent evil of the tech or of the application but about the unrecognizable thing I tend to become when I’m on there too long. I do worry about folks who seem to have crossed a threshold where any help they were once receiving from it has long since turned to harm--and they haven’t noticed. Cats, however, do seem incorruptible.
I am clearly late to your post but am delighting in the language you use and pseudonyms (is that right?) for the platforms. Such excellent points, all, and especially this (for me): "Just because a thing involves words and reading, or “connecting” with “likeminded” others, doesn’t mean it can’t be bad for you." Such wise words to remember.
This came at just the right time for me! It gave me goosebumps at just how right. I have been struggling with the idea of just letting fb go - into the wind! It’s harder than I thought. You are my hero! Thanks for writing this!!!
So glad, Denise! Let’s be here to put into the world what we want to see there--which also means recognizing when a habit isn’t serving that work at present!
Great article, thanks. I've reduced my sm time substantially but there is more to do. Not sure I can go cold turkey because - cat pics- but I'm getting there. Sm increasingly seems to be a mda place populated by sad, angry and slightly crazy people. I hope not to be one of them!
Thanks for reading! Right, it’s totally not about some supposed inherent evil of the tech or of the application but about the unrecognizable thing I tend to become when I’m on there too long. I do worry about folks who seem to have crossed a threshold where any help they were once receiving from it has long since turned to harm--and they haven’t noticed. Cats, however, do seem incorruptible.