christine

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

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

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

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

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