Goodbye Twitter

 

I signed up for Twitter on December 3, 2009. Today I closed my account. I was very hesitant to do so but after thinking long and hard about whether I felt the platform was the right place for me, without moderation, with a rapidly dissolving corporate hierarchy, I felt it was time to move on. But to where? Mastodon? Hive? Post? I can't just join all of them and companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, and my local governments haven't adopted another platform. So back to when it was "harder" to contact them.

"Harder"... Like picking up the phone to call a human being. Yes, the human is now often a computer. Yes, now the company doesn't have a physical phone, but the point is, many of them have some way to contact them directly instead of through a social media platform. But "harder" could mean it is mentally harder for you to make a phone call. It could also mean your preferred asynchronous method of communication that allows for you time to think about your response is now synchronous. "Harder" may mean instead of a quick 160 character message of frustration, it is an entire blog entry on Blogger knowing it will receive maybe 6 views from family members.

I am already on TikTok and YouTube (mostly as a lurker), and I shut down my Facebook already. I know TikTok has issues as well, but since I don't use it as a community and use it more like a TV, I figured one-way content was good enough. I still have Instagram and LinkedIn. Instagram is just a portfolio of photos and LinkedIn is my professional network.

What other options are there? Yeah, I could populate more in my YouTube channel. But if you saw me on camera, you'd probably think otherwise. This is also why I don't post anything on TikTok. I tried... and when I went back later to look at something, I startled myself and later deleted the videos. Yeah, yeah... self-deprecating is not pretty, but sometimes you just can't help it.

Anyway, I will be back here for a while.



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