I’m getting ready to go on a two-week road trip – business, family, etc. – back to my old NJ/NY/CT stomping grounds. Before I depart, I’ve been thinking about: what do I really need, what makes any damn difference, and what do I NOT need to clutter my remaining years with.
One conclusion I have arrived at: I do not need multiple ‘social media’ platforms.
Since I re-entered the ‘space’ a few months ago, I really have not done most of what I thought I was going to do (the business-related stuff).
What I HAVE done is… go off the cliff of opening apps and scrolling my life away.
So before I head into the sunrise, I am going to delete Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and even LinkedIn from my iPhone and close all the tabs in my browser. I dunno about y’all, but my experience is: they are redundant, time-sucking engines of narcissism and lunacy.
On the other hand – and against my better instincts – I have gotten some genuine, real-world benefit from returning to Facebook, so I’ll leave that one going for now at least…
…and hope that deleting all these other distractions will somehow diminish the the impulse to poke-and-scroll the one that remains.
#WishMeLuckWithThat
#OKZuckYouWin