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[camwyn]

They say people who read Facebook and/or certain other social networks come out of it in worse mental shape than people who don't. Not sure if that's true, but I've been noticing that it's very easy to come out of Twitter in an awful mood, so this morning I edited the hosts file on my computer to redirect twitter.com to 127.0.0.1. If I want or need to go to the hellsite, I'm going to have to do it on another machine, and I tend to be lazy about that kind of thing, so that should cut down on the amount of angry screaming I'm exposed to.

I mostly went to Twitter to scream anyway, or else to satisfy the various political/social groups that I hear from when they send 'thank you for taking $action_x! now can you help us more by taking $action_y?' requests.

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[in_the_blue]

Twitter is sort of an angry place, isn't it. Especially these days. I admit I have a very short list of people I read there on a regular basis, and my browser shortcut goes to that short list. If I want to read my whole timeline, I have to be intentional about it. Of course it means I miss stuff, but the important things tend to settle to the top.

I've been pretty cautious curating my list on Facebook too. I'm there for the writing groups much more than the general socialization.

But yeah, some days I just skip Twitter altogether. It's where people go these days to yell into the abyss.

[leeshajoy]

Something I posted to Tumblr last week:

"Man, Tumblr is such a shithole, I don't know why I keep coming back here."
*spends ten minutes on literally other social network*
"Ohhhhh, that's why."