We are so in sync - I deactivated Facebook & Twitter last week... And for a very similar reason. It just bores me more & more. I think this is generally a good sign! And oh that grasshopper!! 💚
So with you on this, Robyn. I gave up Facebook in 2013 and haven't missed it in the least. I never went on Twitter and I'm very glad for that. I was having lunch with a friend recently who reads my MORE TO COME newsletter (he's part of a very small group of followers) and he said it reminds him of Emily Dickinson's "This is My Letter to the World" --- which, of course, we reminded each other has a second line of "which never wrote to me." That's about right. I like your comparison to a letter in a bottle. Just throw it out there and move on. And good luck with the oral surgery! DJB
lol, welcome to the bright side! I deactivated Twitter a while back and don’t miss it. I haven’t engaged much with notes. I still post daily photos on insta and fb for my family members but I’ve started scheduling them so I only have to go out there once a day (or less). The biggest change I made was not picking up my phone in the morning, unless it’s absolutely necessary. I had gotten in a bad habit of playing the spelling bee on New York Times, and that would get me scrolling through other things. So now the only thing I look at in the morning is the weather, then I put my phone down and I do not look at it until I’m back from the lake or it’s at least 8 AM. ( I get up around 5:30). It does make a difference. I do notice when I want to scroll through things. If I don’t do it, I have to feel that discomfort, but then I end up doing something else, so it works out. I think it’s going to happen more and more. I do wonder what it means for writers sending out material if more and more people don’t engage that way.
Good for you. I left that site formerly known as Twitter just recently for all the reasons you discuss. I’ve tried a few of the “replacements” but didn’t stick with them for all the reasons you discuss. I’m still with IG because I enjoy sharing photos and videos of nature and the things I make (I’m a knitter and weaver). And I tend to follow the same so at least with IG, I can get a mood boost from seeing lovely flowers from someone’s garden or a thirsty hummingbird from another’s bird cam. It’s not exciting stuff, perhaps not even thrilling unless you find a 10-second video of two bumblebees fighting over a hummingbird feeder thrilling ... which I do. It sounds like you would too. And, as you note, less time on social media is more time for real engagement with the world. Love the grasshopper 🙂
Here's to more grasshoppers! And an easy recovery from oral surgery!
Love Love Love the “amused” Grasshopper.
Love Love Love your thoughts on Social Media.
Perhaps it is sometimes, unsocial media?!?
We are so in sync - I deactivated Facebook & Twitter last week... And for a very similar reason. It just bores me more & more. I think this is generally a good sign! And oh that grasshopper!! 💚
So with you on this, Robyn. I gave up Facebook in 2013 and haven't missed it in the least. I never went on Twitter and I'm very glad for that. I was having lunch with a friend recently who reads my MORE TO COME newsletter (he's part of a very small group of followers) and he said it reminds him of Emily Dickinson's "This is My Letter to the World" --- which, of course, we reminded each other has a second line of "which never wrote to me." That's about right. I like your comparison to a letter in a bottle. Just throw it out there and move on. And good luck with the oral surgery! DJB
lol, welcome to the bright side! I deactivated Twitter a while back and don’t miss it. I haven’t engaged much with notes. I still post daily photos on insta and fb for my family members but I’ve started scheduling them so I only have to go out there once a day (or less). The biggest change I made was not picking up my phone in the morning, unless it’s absolutely necessary. I had gotten in a bad habit of playing the spelling bee on New York Times, and that would get me scrolling through other things. So now the only thing I look at in the morning is the weather, then I put my phone down and I do not look at it until I’m back from the lake or it’s at least 8 AM. ( I get up around 5:30). It does make a difference. I do notice when I want to scroll through things. If I don’t do it, I have to feel that discomfort, but then I end up doing something else, so it works out. I think it’s going to happen more and more. I do wonder what it means for writers sending out material if more and more people don’t engage that way.
Good for you! I'm starting to shift my relationship to social media as well. More living, less documenting :) Good luck!
Good for you. I left that site formerly known as Twitter just recently for all the reasons you discuss. I’ve tried a few of the “replacements” but didn’t stick with them for all the reasons you discuss. I’m still with IG because I enjoy sharing photos and videos of nature and the things I make (I’m a knitter and weaver). And I tend to follow the same so at least with IG, I can get a mood boost from seeing lovely flowers from someone’s garden or a thirsty hummingbird from another’s bird cam. It’s not exciting stuff, perhaps not even thrilling unless you find a 10-second video of two bumblebees fighting over a hummingbird feeder thrilling ... which I do. It sounds like you would too. And, as you note, less time on social media is more time for real engagement with the world. Love the grasshopper 🙂
SO RELATABLE. Yes.
cast more spells!