Social Feeds must be Fed to Survive

I’ve been trying to spend my time looking for hope in the small things around me, instead of losing it with the manufactured doom designed to overwhelm and kill it fed to me on social media.

I know. I have said this before. I constantly fail at staying away. However, this isn’t about not being there. It is about reducing the consumption. It is a digital diet of sorts.

I am going to begin taking weekends off from all social channels where I remain. I now go offline for social media from Thursday until Monday. I am not an influencer. I don’t have the time to be a “content creator.” I am a nobody. I don’t need to be constantly around.

For the last three years, I have been struggling to find an online home as the social landscape changed. Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads - none have given me the community feeling I had from Twitter. Then, two years ago my health took a significant turn, taking me away from even more of online connections I had when I needed to give up streaming with any regularity. Nothing felt right, but I kept showing up in a half-assed way.

Only recently did I realize my online home is the one I create for myself.

Somewhere along the lines, blogging became a place to write long-winded posts for a newsletter. This doesn't need to be case. If I want blogging to return, I need to do it myself, in my own way. Feeding the feeds with random ideas or quips to drive engagement for billionaires isn't my job or responsibility. I am shifting focus to moving the thoughts I would dump on social sites to this blog - giving the ideas a bit more time, and touching grass (snow) as much as I can.

It is time to live like it is 2006. Blogging once again.