I think this mirrors my own trend. There was a thread I read yesterday about how folks who disengage (or waldenpond) aren& #39;t as self-realized, and that& #39;s maybe true if you unplug entirely -- but I don& #39;t recall it accounting for lurking so much. https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1307715754763210758">https://twitter.com/bombsfall...

It was from vgr, of course: https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1307486898290528257?s=20
"I">https://twitter.com/vgr/statu... wonder why many feel the urge to define a posture and motive in the Discourse. My one big meta thought is that it’s better to be in the discourse than out of it."

Lurking might not be *in* it, but is still "of" it.

There& #39;s a definite correlation between how turbulent things are (or seem to be) and the amount of noise that I perpetuate into the void. This was most obvious when the company I was working for imploded earlier this year, but it maps to smaller events too.

I guess the crux of my point is that while I believe it is possible to find a valuable utility in being online, there are some very common anti-patterns involved in participating online. That goes back to defining a posture and narrative.

I& #39;m not ready to unplug -- I& #39;m not even sure I can, or really ever had -- but I definitely want to find healthier patterns.