Recent posts tagged social media
2022
Leaving The Nest
When a Tweeter considers exiting.
2021
Intake And Output
If I were to make a Venn diagram with two elements labeled Things I Have Fun Watching/Reading and Things I Want To Bring Into The World, one would be an entire subset of the other.
2020
Four Years Of Facelessness
According to the fossil record, I quit using Facebook about four years ago, give or take a month. I'm still off. I regret nothing.
2019
The NOFOLLOW Flag
A photographer deleted his social media presence to save his creative instincts. A wise idea.
2018
Farcebook
Notes on a single point of failure.
Nobloggy But Me
Blogging never "died"; it's just become harder to see. But it's as crucial as ever.
Faceless
With Facebook out of my life, it's all the easier to spot unproductive discourse of all kinds, because of what else it reminds me of.
Erasure
Outside of the social media bubble, the void.
The Problem With The Rat Race Is That Even If You Win, You're Still A Rat
On media both social and antisocial.
Philosophizing With A Megaphone
On Twitter as a case study in technical non-solutions to social problems.
The Attention Thieves
Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear.
The Loud And The Desperate
"Your image does not need curation, because all you are doing is broadcasting your desperation."
2017
Face Down In The Cesspool
A year and change ago, I mostly quit social media. I don't think that's likely to change.
2016
My New Brain Dept.
On life without Facebook. (It's pretty good.)
2013
Medium, Neither Rare Nor Well Done Dept.
They were complaining about the movies being scorched earth in 1937.
