small intrusions of others expectations “oh, you’re going alone?” catty comments “I love that for you” sitting on my phone for an extended time in one spot to finish a conversation or thread
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Things I was excited to leave behind when going off grid: Being on the hook to respond to ongoing conversations Social media ride of posting, waiting for reactions, getting them, and feeling validated or not Pings, dings, swooshes, haptics, ringtones
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casual emotional violence from news in my feed. ^i think this one is kind of big, we absorb a lot of brutality everyday, but we blink and keep scrolling
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along with being on the hook to respond to conversations, keeping track of conversations and waiting for responses ^this is all low level but it’s like having apps run in the background
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ease of picking up phone and ordering takeout instead of making food air pollution automatically reaching for phone to fill any empty time/mental space
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consuming a ton of content everyday but not feeling closer to clarity
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I also missed a lot of things while gone! Social interaction, increased clarity of discussing half digested ideas with people, comfort of sitting at a cafe, encouragement from people who aren’t yourself
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omg also scrolling social media in bed when I wake up/go to sleep
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