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user-inactivated  ·  3523 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The end of Big Twitter

All I ever did on twitter was ruin movies for people and complain. It can be a constructive platform I'm sure, but I sure didn't use it as such. Perhaps the only time when I actively used it was during the six months I went without Facebook - the moment I returned to FB was the moment I stopped using twitter. I wish I'd just dropped twitter and kept FB dropped.

My biggest issue with Twitter is that I couldn't fully block someone to where I couldn't see their tweets. This probably sounds insane, but I tend to be a bit self-destroying in an obsessive capacity, so effectively removing someone from twitter was a good way to stop thinking about them. Though, the same could be said for pretty much any social media.

The other realization I've had while observing social media is that no one is themselves. Everyone's angling for likes or retweets. I can't stand it. Because everything is so impersonal, it's context collapse on a massive level. I detest talking to people over textual platforms. There's nothing like talking to someone face to face, and I fear greatly that this generation just doesn't care about that. I feel like I've been left behind by my own people.