With my Canada day deadline behind me, my social media experiment must unfortunately (fortunately?) come to an end. I would have to say that largely, it was a successful attempt to gain some perspective as well as some insight into why people think and say the things they do.
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As I venture back into the dungeon that is my studio, I feel that twitter is mostly a distraction at this point and it would be beneficial to leave it behind. Surely I wasn't using this forsaken site to its full potential and maybe my cynicism was beginning to swell.
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The things I learned are not easy to put in to words especially given my difficulties with writing in general and the countless deleted threads are proof of this. Looking back though, I can honestly say that I was mostly respectable and managed to keep my inner troll locked up.
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I have noticed though that twitter has literally changed my brain in the year and a half I was active. My attention span and anxiety levels have clearly been affected although I'm still not really an anxious person. It will be interesting to see how they change from here on.
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One thing I will take away from this experience is how much of our political disagreements are at the root, based on language and/or semantics. Laying out terms and avoiding rhetoric would do wonders for discourse.
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This isn't to say that people don't have legitimate disagreements, but its obvious to me that many if not most hot takes could be quenched with a lighter touch. Many unpopular opinions could be easily translated into a more appealing version with less of an authoritarian tone.
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Also, post tragedy twitter is fucking disgraceful.
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