Read on Twitter
I feel like I& #39;ve been quieter than normal on Twitter since self-isolation began, which is the opposite of what I would have expected--and it seems to have multiple causes that have me thinking about my general social media habits.
It is partially because I& #39;m trying to limit my rage and gloom intake. People are talking about important stuff, and folks& #39; feelings about this important stuff are valid! But we& #39;ve all got to look after how much of it we can take in.
I don& #39;t think that& #39;s the main factor, though.
I don& #39;t think that& #39;s the main factor, though.
Like a lot of folks, my routine is disrupted. I am not bored, but I am more boring--the parts of my life that are more active right now are the parts that I don& #39;t talk about in public.
But I think isolation has mucked up the process by which I form and share opinions.
But I think isolation has mucked up the process by which I form and share opinions.
I& #39;m an introverted person. We were talking about documentation culture vs. meeting culture a couple weeks back and I would think of myself as a heavily docs-culture person. But I& #39;m not. Maybe it& #39;s Quakerism, but my decision matrix is innately collaborative.
Isolation has fucked that up. Twitter is many things, but it& #39;s not a good venue for that kind of collaborative thinking-through of things ranging from "what did I think of this movie" to "who am I planning to vote for in the primary?"
And it& #39;s not indecisiveness or an inability to form my own opinions. It& #39;s a method of knowing my views but also building on viewpoints I trust and being open to the idea that I haven& #39;t fully considered a thing. And the opening steps in that process are all conversations.
Basically my brother is not at my place roughly once a week talking about everything and nothing for hours on end, and it has unbalanced a well-developed thought process that has in turn messed up my pipeline of twitter jokes and insightful threads.
