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Social Media Destroys My Brain Every Time
I think I have a real problem with it. I wrote about it here. And here.
Last night I got on Twitter and regret it instantly. Lately, I haven’t been on social media much anymore. Twitter’s the only social app I have at the moment and it stays on my iPad only, so I use it less. Still, it impacts my mood and changes the way I view the world around me every time I look at it.
Now I like Twitter — to an extent. Information, news, pop culture. Those are all fine and good.
What I don’t like is slew of BS I have to sift through in order to see the things I actually want to see. Most of the “news” that lands of my feed is full of hatred, pandering, and immorality. Everything seems dumbed down. All of my friends are talking to themselves (myself included). Nothing about social media feels natural, in fact, it feels inhuman.
Social media makes me feel dumb, stupid, and worthless.
I do my best to curate my feed with good, productive, meaningful talk — but that has its limitations.
Twitter has a feature where you see what someone else liked. So because some other, random person liked a tweet, you’re now susceptible to it. I’ve told the company numerous times “I don’t like this tweet.”
