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3/ What this means: No more political posts nor trying to change the world with tweets; no more engagement with comments; and no more attempting to make arguments 280 characters at a time that inevitably get taken out of context.
4/ There's a number of things motivating this. Jaron's arguments are extremely persuasive to me, but also there's personal reasons that I'm not going to go into here. Mainly, I simply think social media is breaking brains. It's mental junk food. It's addicting.
5/ I'll stop there because otherwise I'll be contradicting myself with trying to persuade on Twitter. But I simply encourage others to reflect on the state of the world, their own experiences with social media, and then consider if you really need or want that.
Social networks are The Borg hive mind. A cacophony of voices that makes you insane. We are simply not ready to exert such a kind of control, with so much force for so long every day. Reducing use and avoiding other people's way of thinking is the best thing to do.
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