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October 14th, 2017 |
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I deleted my Twitter account this week. It's been a decision I've |
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been building up to for a while now. There's so many things that |
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make me furious on there. Pretty much everything to do with |
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American politics, the abuses of people of color and the LGBT |
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community, women, Nazi bullshit, it just keeps going. The few |
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moments of hilarity when a brand will respond to a person with |
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a witty remark just don't balance the scales. |
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I met my wife on Twitter, via my best friend. I have^H^Hd a large |
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community to draw on and engage with. I kept in touch with some |
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people only via that medium. But, having left Facebook almost 10 |
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years ago, I realize that there's no real regrets in shedding |
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a social network. The people who reach out to me in another way |
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are the ones worthy of keeping in touch. The community I leave |
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behind in one space will be matched by a new community elsewhere. |
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Twitter is a cesspool of hate, of anger. It cannot police its own |
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systems. It does not deserve to have my attention. |
