and yet every once in a while I reactivate my account because “oh i wanna see what the funny people are saying” but its not worth having to deal with the weird shitty clapback style of speaking everyone does, and the rampant nazis that people still fucking quote tweet to get their cheap lazy dunks. after being on there for far too long I realized i’d subconsciously adopted that whole pattern of thinking where you look for a bullying target and generally hate yourself and everyone around you. once I clocked that I went to 
and never go back. i cannot escape the conclusion that it is a deeply evil website. i know all social media is like that because of capitalism but twitter really is its own world.
i never understood twitter. like the appeal I mean. and they layout is counter intuitive for quotes and nesting. its clearly just made to shout contextless snippets into an ether. great platform for headlines, not for dialogue.
after they unbanned all the overt nazis and account-walled even looking at replies, it killed off any interest i had in looking at content that links to that burst sewer pipe.
but i was abandoning web 2.0 platforms before most people alive today even had their first. friendster, myspace, if you wait until the platform is a ghost town of spam bots and evil grandmas before you cut your losses, you’ve already lost.
I always think of that interview where Julia Roberts is asked where she can be followed on Twitter. She doesn’t know what it is, the interviewer has to explain it to her, and she just says “Why would anyone want that? That’s just…shouting into the wind.”
I’ve maintained this position ever since.