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An Update From Hiatus-Land
January 4th, 2018 02:46 pmThis is going to be a long post, let's just accept the reality of that at the outset.
The entire time I've been off twitter, I've thought periodically about how exciting and nice it will be to share XYZ thing that I've done with my friends on social media, but now that I've broken my hiatus, I just... Don't want to do that.
I took a hiatus because I believed that the amount of time I was spending on twitter was detrimental to my mental health. I didn't think it was good for me to be exposed to such a constant onslaught of negative political news, fandom drama, and information that was just generally unpleasant to me. And more than that, I feel that twitter use has reframed the way my brain conceives of and processes information. I think in 140-character bursts and my attention span has been slivered down to nothing. I wanted a break from twitter to let my mind rest, and return to a more natural, comfortable baseline state.
So rather than break my friend update into 280-character chunks on twitter, I thought I would write a blog post.
( and as I was saying: this will be long )
I really do want to talk to friends more but I will be trying to limit the time I spend on twitter, and I will be avoiding looking at my timeline itself, sticking primarily to mentions and DMs. I'm so grateful to the friends who have texted me and emailed me while I've been gone. I want to preserve the SOCIAL aspect of social media, without the always-on, information-overload that ruins my life, lol.
The entire time I've been off twitter, I've thought periodically about how exciting and nice it will be to share XYZ thing that I've done with my friends on social media, but now that I've broken my hiatus, I just... Don't want to do that.
I took a hiatus because I believed that the amount of time I was spending on twitter was detrimental to my mental health. I didn't think it was good for me to be exposed to such a constant onslaught of negative political news, fandom drama, and information that was just generally unpleasant to me. And more than that, I feel that twitter use has reframed the way my brain conceives of and processes information. I think in 140-character bursts and my attention span has been slivered down to nothing. I wanted a break from twitter to let my mind rest, and return to a more natural, comfortable baseline state.
So rather than break my friend update into 280-character chunks on twitter, I thought I would write a blog post.
( and as I was saying: this will be long )
I really do want to talk to friends more but I will be trying to limit the time I spend on twitter, and I will be avoiding looking at my timeline itself, sticking primarily to mentions and DMs. I'm so grateful to the friends who have texted me and emailed me while I've been gone. I want to preserve the SOCIAL aspect of social media, without the always-on, information-overload that ruins my life, lol.
