I wouldn’t have “met” you without Instapoop but I hear you! It’s all such a time suck and almost anything you do instead is more valuable. My compromise has been to delete Facebook and Twitter permanently and only use IG. From time to time, I go through and delete any account that I can so that I’m following as few accounts as possible… xo
Yes, I think ultimately I will do the same. Instagram still sucks me in, and, at least right now, feels the least sleazy! And I have made some incredible connections there ;)
I have two things to thank you for, and first is the word "dignity," which seems to me the exact right one of how to speak about life when we're unplugged. It has a dignity.
The second is this line:
"College was the first time many of us had our own computers, but aside from homework and downloading music from Limewire, the computer just kind of sat there"
Oh, how I love this line, and thank you for the memory. Because it DID just sit there (My "laptop" might have weighed ten pounds). The computer, then, wasn't a portal it was a destination: a place where I sat to write papers and very, very long emails. Remember when we wrote emails like letters?
I wouldn’t have “met” you without Instapoop but I hear you! It’s all such a time suck and almost anything you do instead is more valuable. My compromise has been to delete Facebook and Twitter permanently and only use IG. From time to time, I go through and delete any account that I can so that I’m following as few accounts as possible… xo
Yes, I think ultimately I will do the same. Instagram still sucks me in, and, at least right now, feels the least sleazy! And I have made some incredible connections there ;)
I remember the days of dial up. That's when childhood was so pure.
it really was <3
I have two things to thank you for, and first is the word "dignity," which seems to me the exact right one of how to speak about life when we're unplugged. It has a dignity.
The second is this line:
"College was the first time many of us had our own computers, but aside from homework and downloading music from Limewire, the computer just kind of sat there"
Oh, how I love this line, and thank you for the memory. Because it DID just sit there (My "laptop" might have weighed ten pounds). The computer, then, wasn't a portal it was a destination: a place where I sat to write papers and very, very long emails. Remember when we wrote emails like letters?
With you in the resistance,
Sarah
gahh thank you, Sarah! And I love the distinction between portal v destination.
Big hug to you!