Today I started thinking about re-starting this blog, but I didn't even know if I could. Well, it looks like I can! Blogger seems even easier to navigate than it used to be back in my blogging days.
I gave up all social media starting in January of this year (2026), and I'm not looking back. Life without it is great! I miss knowing about a few things going on, and participating in my Buy Nothing group (sort of), but other than that there is nothing that will get me back to it any time soon.
Social media basically ruined my blogging and writing life, and I'm not too proud to say it. I started on Facebook in 2009, I believe, and over the years became more and more addicted to scrolling social media, news sites, and videos. Like so many people! That's how "they" designed it, after all (they meaning the big tech bros, as we now call them). And boy, has it harmed our world.
In the beginning, social media was all about sharing. I remember getting excited with other big thinkers about the "sharing economy" and how we were forming sharing communities all over the world. Some of that happened, indeed. But even more so, arguing happened. Division and anger and even hatred of our fellow human beings happened. Horrible politicians and terrible sociopathic CEOs rose to power, culminating in the current regime in America that is harming so many of us.
So I'm done with it. And I want to write again. Truly write. Long form, paragraphs even, not just snippets of humor or angst or rage. I want to tell stories, share ideas, express myself. Even if it's just for myself. And this post is a start.
Thanks for reading, any of you who are still around or who find me now. Talk again soon!
Be well,
Lisa
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