Well, it’s time.
This has been coming for a minute, more than a minute.
I’ve decided to leave the social medias and do most of my posting here, on this website. As a start, I’m posting about my departures here instead of on the various platforms.
This probably means a slow death of my stuff, but here’s the thing: I can’t let that kind of fear keep me on social media any longer.
Maybe what little attention I get online will dwindle to nothing, and maybe I’ll be in an even deeper attention hole than before. This hole is pretty deep already, y’all. Dank, too. Not in a weed way, in a hole way.
As of now:
- Reddit is gone
- Twitter is gone
- Facebook is gone
I’ll still use YouTube to post videos.
I’ll also be on Instagram because that one is still fun for me, but that’s not a good place to contact me, if that’s what you’re trying to do.
I’ll also use Goodreads, though I’ll probably be moving to writing reviews on this site instead of placing them on Goodreads (or in addition to). Goodreads is still a pretty good way to find books and track reading, and I like those aspects a lot. Plus, I think it’s good to have an author profile over there, that seems useful, so I’m going to keep that going.
And that just about covers it.
So, when you want to see my great stuff, come on down to this website, where it’ll all be posted. And, yes, feel free to link to things or post things on social media that I make or do, that’s lovely.
I encourage you to take this for what it is: Just me saying that, personally, social media has outlived its fun factor. Rather than feeling joy, I was spending WAY too much time doomscrolling, fighting with other losers who don’t know shit about fuck, and generally feeling bad.
This doesn’t have anything to do with Elon or with the evils of Facebook.
It does have some to do with the way I think social media has homogenized and boring-ified the internet.
It also has to do with the fact that most of the bad interactions I’ve had with people have been online, not in person.
It does have a little to do with the way social media has damaged writing, something I care about quite a bit. I am strongly of the belief that social media, not technology, not the internet in general, social media has really hurt writers and writing and done irreparable harm. Writers press on, but this isn’t an injury, it’s a loss of limbs, and I don’t want to be a part of that.
You don’t have to quit social media. Hell, I shouldn’t even know whether you do or not, seeing as I’m not there anymore!
In fact, I’m not encouraging you to do anything in particular. I just made this decision today and shut everything down within the last hour or so, and I don’t really know how this is all going to pan out. Maybe I’ll regret it.
But I don’t think so. Because my toilet is dirty.
See, the toilet has needed cleaning for a few weeks now. It’s not a big job, doesn’t take that long, but I haven’t done it. And yet, I’ve managed to post to social media dozens of times since noticing the state of the shitter.
I want to make time for the things I want to do, the things that’ll improve my life. I hope this means I’ll write more, I’ll have more to share with you all. The way things were going, I had less actual stuff to share and too many ways of sharing it.
And, to be honest, having a clean toilet means more to me than having a thousand twitter followers.