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I Hate Social Media

Social Media is Terrible

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A note: I have a Patreon and am cooking up some amazing courses over the next few months (including a group social media purification), many of them pre-recorded to do on your own time. Please come join!

I lasted a little over a month back on social media. It was fun and weird to watch the progression of my experience. First it was fun! Seeing all my friends and people I hadn’t interacted with in so long. Kids had grown, people’s lives had changed, and I happily exchanged messages and interactions. I especially loved being back on Instagram, but eventually activated my Facebook again too (that only lasted a week and may have been the incitement to me leaving everything again).

Within the first two weeks of being back, I noticed the threads of my focus fraying. I felt confused. What did I want? Part of this is a product of me being a writer and having started a podcast (which I’ve decided to pause). How do I market things?

But it wasn’t just that. It was all my old …

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