LB: The story of Twitter for me is the story of me following smart, insightful, funny and talented people, and then watch them get gradually more and more prone to fits of terrifying anger.
The moment the algorithmic timeline set in, Twitter slowly morphed into a place you go to get in a bad mood and spread it around.
And the thing of it is, in many cases anger is fully justified. People have a right to be mad about police violence; there's something the matter with you if you're not mad at cops getting away with murder.
But when I saw people I knew get furious at someone whose chief sin was "did not like movie" at an intensity that was all out of proportion, I started to wonder: if social media is a habit, do the emotions become a habit as well?
Anyways I've been in a much better mood since I took Twitter off my phone!
@ragnell Ages ago I saw someone tweet "boo to people who leave Twitter for their mental health. Come back to Twitter and be miserable with the rest of us."
I think I knew that, Musk or not, my days there would have to be numbered, because imagine knowing what it's doing to you, and deciding that not only did you like it, others had to as well.
