That’s how all proclamations start right? I’m taking an extended break from twitter, and most other social media. It’s become a distraction in my life, as so many fun things are. Twitter, in the way that I do it, is pulling my focus away from my real life.
Is social media a bad thing? Not at all. But when it becomes a part of someone at the expense of others then it requires a pause, some time for reflection. I spend way too much time looking down at my blackberry and not enough time looking forward, literally and figuratively.
I have much to do this summer and I need to focus at the tasks at hand. So I’m going off-grid in a minor way. I may blog a little more, even take a little more pictures. But the constant feed of information has to stop, at least through the end of summer.
There’s a movie, “Until the End of the World” Where in people get a hold of a device that plays back their dreams and visions. They couldn’t stop watching it; it was video crack. The only way to break the addiction was to lay down with Aborigines and travel through Dreamtime for a night.
I need to lay down with an Aborigine.
See you in the fall Twitterverse
You'll be missed, but I totally understand. I shut down my Facebook a month ago for similar reasons.
ReplyDeleteahh ... thanks, I to just dumped a bunch of facebook "friends" ... I only have family and real close friends on there now. It turned into a circus on FB.
ReplyDeleteI just read your last several blogs and I can relate. Job that sucks, vacation days that go nowhere, overwhelming technology everywhere you turn and no time to keep up with it all. Lately I want to sell everything I own and start all over in another place that's calmer and relaxing -- if that place exists. Maybe when I retire I can get away from it all.
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