Read on Twitter
Six months ago, after lurking for a while, I decided to join twitter. But I did so on a trial basis - I gave it six months, after which I would evaluate. And coming to the end of that trial period, I& #39;ve reached a pretty easy decision: I& #39;m going to get the hell back off twitter./1
It& #39;s been a mix of good and bad. The good:
- Talking with people I wouldn& #39;t otherwise get to interact with, especially junior people and grad students, and people in other fields
- Getting to read insightful/funny/interesting takes from people outside my immediate orbit /2
- Talking with people I wouldn& #39;t otherwise get to interact with, especially junior people and grad students, and people in other fields
- Getting to read insightful/funny/interesting takes from people outside my immediate orbit /2
The bad:
- I keep getting distracted with stuff that isn& #39;t actually significant to me. (E.g., the Harpers letter would have barely been a blip on my radar if I wasn& #39;t on twitter, and I vaguely resent the amount of my mental space it& #39;s ended up occupying.)
- The outrage. . ./3
- I keep getting distracted with stuff that isn& #39;t actually significant to me. (E.g., the Harpers letter would have barely been a blip on my radar if I wasn& #39;t on twitter, and I vaguely resent the amount of my mental space it& #39;s ended up occupying.)
- The outrage. . ./3
. . .cycle is wearying, and it can sometimes make it hard to differentiate between stuff that genuinely deserves my outrage and stuff that doesn& #39;t
- I& #39;ve found that my own participation encourages an uncomfortable strand of narcissism in myself that I don& #39;t like /4
- I& #39;ve found that my own participation encourages an uncomfortable strand of narcissism in myself that I don& #39;t like /4
