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