Nows and Forevers

I am sure Threads looks cool. I don’t know, ’cause I am not planning to join.

For 15 years, I posted early and often on social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, then Post and Mastadon last year after it looked like Twitter was about to implode. I had some trenchant things to say, some useless things to say, and a lot in between. I posted probably 70,000 times between 2008 and early 2023.

And then I stopped.

I have barely posted since April. I have turned my face away from Facebook. I am not really tweeting, nor posting on Insta. And I am also not reading, either. I still post on LinkedIn, but that’s about it.

I have no desire to post on Threads.

I don’t think it’s going to change, either. I mean, maybe. But it feels like after nearly four months away, I have broken that habit. I see that it would help me when it comes to my blog. But the psychic cost of social media was too much. I can’t see feeling that way again.