Quitting social media

Yep, catching specific tweets on your feed while scrolling Twitter is pretty difficult. I have a few news sites that I like and scroll the feed of those publications to find news stories, but I doubt the majority of users go that route.

 

Maybe that’s why people who are ‘good’ at Twitter tweet the same thing over & over at strategic times of the day. Richard Deitsch comes to mind. Or he tweets the same thing worded slightly differently.

Of course doing that, you run the risk of annoying people. I’d prefer not to annoy.

 

Sounds like I would be tremendous at Twitter.

 

ICYMI:

 

I click on the links in my Twitter feed. I see an interesting article, then another, then another, then another, and soon I've got a half-dozen articles open that I'm not going to end up reading.

 

Is that a New Yorker cartoon?

I read The New Yorker cover-to-cover every week.

I devour most issues of Esquire and GQ. Nothing would make me prouder than to some day land a byline in any of those publications. Or Rolling Stone. Or the Atlantic. You get the idea.

 

This morning, a high school classmate posted a photo of her child of about 11 or 12, in the hospital, on a gurney, wearing a hospital cap, going in for some kind of procedure. The kid isn’t smiling for the camera, but staring off into space.

“Wishing for the best for this trooper,” she posted, or something along those lines.

The impulse to post photos of sick kids is one I really don’t connect with. Or grades. It feels like such a grotesque invasion of their privacies.

 

I saw you mentioned the New Yorker, I always like to recommend this documentary.

 

I saw this thread pop up, and I have to say, I don't miss Twitter one bit. It was such an essential part of my daily routine, I'm kind of surprised at how little it mattered in the end. It's meaningless, basically. If people enjoy being on there and get something out it, great. My life is better for not being hooked on it.