A couple of months ago, GQ profiled Aziz Ansari, who revealed that he has almost fully disconnected himself from the internet, deleting everything but text messaging from his phone and completely quitting Facebook, Twitter, and all other social media platforms: "Eventually...you don't care anymore. It's better to just sit and be in your own head for a minute." Many of us have tried some version of this practice. Almost everyone I know has quit either Facebook or Twitter altogether for some amount of time. I delete Twitter from my phone periodically before caving in and reinstalling it and even when logged on I can sense that it's not as fun as it used to be. You'd have to be insane to argue in 2017 that unmitigated social media usage enhances your life.
#27: The Privilege of Logging Off
#27: The Privilege of Logging Off
#27: The Privilege of Logging Off
A couple of months ago, GQ profiled Aziz Ansari, who revealed that he has almost fully disconnected himself from the internet, deleting everything but text messaging from his phone and completely quitting Facebook, Twitter, and all other social media platforms: "Eventually...you don't care anymore. It's better to just sit and be in your own head for a minute." Many of us have tried some version of this practice. Almost everyone I know has quit either Facebook or Twitter altogether for some amount of time. I delete Twitter from my phone periodically before caving in and reinstalling it and even when logged on I can sense that it's not as fun as it used to be. You'd have to be insane to argue in 2017 that unmitigated social media usage enhances your life.