flâneur

social media is a boring, solved game. - by Andrew Rose

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I was on Substack this morning and suddenly I was overwhelmed by disgust and boredom. Why am I reading all these opinions in my bed right now? Fuck. This isn’t the first time I have suddenly rejected social media. In fact, I suspect we all feel this way from time to time. When I was 20 I had just moved to San Francisco for work, and I would wake up every day and read reddit until I felt like getting out of bed. My Reddit was really funny, so I would often laugh and smile. But one day I woke up and it all felt sickening… Why am I laughing at these strangers’ jokes? Why did I move to another state to work, away from my family and community, away from my home, if I’m going to spend my time laughing to reddit jokes? Is this relaxing? Is this rest? Suddenly, it was the opposite of restful, and my Reddit use disgusted me. I just couldn’t stand it anymore, the idea that I was treating my homesickness and loneliness with the same endless, upvoted humor day after day. So I deleted Reddit and ha

I was on Substack this morning and suddenly I was overwhelmed by disgust and boredom. Why am I reading all these opinions in my bed right now? Fuck. This isn’t the first time I have suddenly rejected social media. In fact, I suspect we all feel this way from time to time. When I was 20 I had just moved to San Francisco for work, and I would wake up every day and read reddit until I felt like getting out of bed. My Reddit was really funny, so I would often laugh and smile. But one day I woke up and it all felt sickening… Why am I laughing at these strangers’ jokes? Why did I move to another…

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