Congrats to you for getting off for good! I am not on social media, but I am a (too) avid consumer of the news. As in, "What happened the last 5 seconds in the world?" avid. While the interpersonal dynamics of social media is absent, the attention commodification and attention grabbing certainly is. I can certainly tell a difference in my personality on the days I engage in headline doomscrolling. I am angrier, more isolated, and unable to think deeply about anything of substance.
Interestingly, I do not find this to be true of print news. I guess there is only a finite amount of the newspaper in my hands, and I have to quit at some point. Perhaps I just need to suck in my gut and by that WSJ subscription.
Anyways, thanks for this 6 month social media sober update. There is hope yet for the rest of us!
Thanks for reading! Yeah, I've subscribed to a few different publications just to try and stay on top of things. The only problem is their articles about broader cultural stuff are about a week or two downstream from the Internet, and by that point everyone has moved on. I'm just now learning about Hawk Tuah girl. But again, how important is that really?
Congrats to you for getting off for good! I am not on social media, but I am a (too) avid consumer of the news. As in, "What happened the last 5 seconds in the world?" avid. While the interpersonal dynamics of social media is absent, the attention commodification and attention grabbing certainly is. I can certainly tell a difference in my personality on the days I engage in headline doomscrolling. I am angrier, more isolated, and unable to think deeply about anything of substance.
Interestingly, I do not find this to be true of print news. I guess there is only a finite amount of the newspaper in my hands, and I have to quit at some point. Perhaps I just need to suck in my gut and by that WSJ subscription.
Anyways, thanks for this 6 month social media sober update. There is hope yet for the rest of us!
Thanks for reading! Yeah, I've subscribed to a few different publications just to try and stay on top of things. The only problem is their articles about broader cultural stuff are about a week or two downstream from the Internet, and by that point everyone has moved on. I'm just now learning about Hawk Tuah girl. But again, how important is that really?