What is Social Media Doing to Us?

A two-part series

Preface: if you were one of the many subscribers who joined at the beginning of 2022, expecting a short story a day, I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. I also want you to know that I wasn’t able to sustain my initial drive to read a short story a day — or, rather, I couldn’t find a balance between reading them and writing about them and enjoying them. This newsletter, like me, is always changing and transforming. I am learning to go with the flow of that, and I hope you’ll stay with me. I’ll still write about short stores on occasion but they won’t be the sole focus here.

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I’ve always had a contentious relationship with social media— even when I was just a baby gen x/millennial cusp teenager hanging out in chat rooms on my stepdad’s work computer. It was an escape, and I could lose myself …