10 Reasons I Blocked Myself from Using Twitter (for now)

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1. I was using it compulsively at silly times

2. My feed turned into political doomerism

3. Nobody I know IRL says anything

4. There are so many cults of personality it’s getting out of hand and I get anxious from that stuff

5. Some people, in isolation, are really good to read, but in the echo chamber it turns into one-sided unreality

6. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who the scammers are

7. Lots of big accounts are less informing and persuading and more manipulating for personal gain (not all, but many)

8. Filtering the noise out is harder than ever (even with improved tools and systems)

9. Bots suck, but you don’t know who’s a bot until your head is full of their crap

10. I need to post when the time is right, then stop reading feeds. Consuming is always worse than creating on almost any platform.