My Social Media Blackout Continues
At this point, Twitter is my only social networking website, getting sporadic use. Much to my surprise, I’ve enjoyed this self-imposed exile quite a bit.
Casual observations:
- My long-neglected to do list is finally, getting shorter. Lots of maintenance stuff on this blog, finally learning jQuery, pHp and MySQL in earnest, and a small freelance job.
- Read two “dead tree” books, starting on a third.
- Forcing myself to socialize more, away from the computer.
- Time moves much slower when not online. Seems the easiest way to kill an hour (or more) was to fire up the web browser and zone out. It was, for me, a huge time sink. Therefore, a good way to gain what feels like several hours each day is to kill that hour of mindless web use drinking from the firehose.
- Cats and wife are happier. Am more “present” as opposed to “distracted.”
Overall, spending less time on speculation, discussion, and criticism, and more time doing and creating things. It’s been a while since I actually built stuff. Feels good. At this juncture, I won’t return from this camping trip for a while.
Glad your self-imposed social media blackout has given you some breathing space. I understand completely — sometimes the effort to become all the more connected in the digital world can have quite an isolating effect in analog world. And face-to-face, real interpersonal communication is still far more satisfying than any online equivalent.
However, there has been a side-effect that has me very concerned. For some reason, during this hiatus, you’ve submerged yourself in an ocean of Woody Allen movies. Please surface soon!
Ha, ha! Well… I’ll let you in on a little secret — my movie reviews
are queued up well in advance, so these Woody Allen flicks were
written several months ago. I have developed an odd fondness for
mashed yeast, however
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Interesting stuff! I just took a brief hiatus, myself, as part of The Next Great Generation’s social media blackout experiment.
My blackout lasted only two days, but keep in mind I’m a power user. I decided to chronicle my experience. (See my site.)
I forgot to note: My name links to my site. Alternately, you can read my piece here: http://www.news-geek.com/blog/my-social-media-blackout-confessions-of-an-addict/