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May. 4th, 2020 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lin_netI've been thinking about social media and how I interact with it recently. I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the current generation / manifestation of social media: Twitter is the big one because, well, it's the only one I've really been on for the last decade. It portrays itself as a social site but really, it's an advertising platform trojan-horsing people in. People just want to post fun cat pics and they're having all their marketable info harvested. (Or fabricated.) This is without even getting into the complete, disastrous breakdown of useful spaces for discussion that its aggressive Algorithm-based representation of content represents. Every tweet is Content from which Engagement must be harvested, and that means deliberately serving it to people who didn't opt-in to seeing it. Which is why people have been complaining about seeing other people's horny Likes for like, years.
... anyway, that's all to say: maybe it'd be good to get away from that a bit! I've made good steps at really reducing my time spent on Twitter and Tumblr in the last year or two, but I think it'd be nice to take that freed-up time and try to do something constructive with it. I made a neocities site the other day, and I think blogging might tie in nicely with what I'm going for.
... anyway, that's all to say: maybe it'd be good to get away from that a bit! I've made good steps at really reducing my time spent on Twitter and Tumblr in the last year or two, but I think it'd be nice to take that freed-up time and try to do something constructive with it. I made a neocities site the other day, and I think blogging might tie in nicely with what I'm going for.
