I Quit Social Media for a Year
I might quit soon too. To be honest - seeing my peers buying homes (with, of course, no discussion about how they made it happen), getting married, traveling a lot, enjoying nice things, and having kids is kinda putting a sour taste in my mouth. It&#x27;s a very biased feed. It&#x27;s basically an endless feed of the highest points of everyone in your entire social circle. I do some of it but I tend to balance it out with, &quot;I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m ever gonna fucking make it in this area.&quot;<p>Social media is a bit like the news but on the opposite side of the spectrum. &quot;Yes, yes, I get it. The world is ending.&quot; I care but I don&#x27;t care to where I need to have it shoved in my face where I&#x27;m going to do things to make the world even worse. (What good is a world that survives if it is full of anxiety?)<p>I&#x27;m not reading the general news generally anymore when I can and maybe I&#x27;ll transfer that to social media soon. (Today was a bad day - a peer of mine who is younger than me just bought a place in SF; I&#x27;m struggling to make it in a 400sqft in-law unit) I notice I feel better and it&#x27;s not like anything I missed is of real substantial importance to my daily life. It&#x27;s just filler. I know my core political philosophy - so it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;ll affect my voting decision much. Reminds me of the article someone posted in response to the 8 year old dying. Something about ignoring the bullshit in life because you don&#x27;t have time for it. You don&#x27;t have time for bullshit and most of social media and the news is full of bullshit. I think it could be really great but most of the time... it&#x27;s just bullshit. Here it is - life is short: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;vb.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;vb.html</a>