Trying a Twitter experiment.

As in, I logged out of Twitter and hid the desktop icon and stuck the iPod app in a folder and deleted it on my phone. I’m curious whether I have a dependency on the thing, you see: so I’m just gonna turn it off for a day and see what happens next. I’ve already suppressed at least one I wonder what funny stuff my followers said about that: I should go look, which suggests that I might, in fact, have a Twitter dependency*. So if I snarl at anybody, say “MOE! Twitter dependency” or something.  That should snap me out of the Madness Place.

Moe Lane

*I’m trying not to call it an ‘addiction’ because that sounds worse.  Might as well be honest about it; I don’t know whether constantly being dipped in social media is bad for my long-term cognitive and neurochemical well-being, but when I actually write it out like that I suspect that I actually do know and just don’t want to admit it. So taking a day off may not be sufficient…

[UDPATE: I forgot that these posts auto-propagate to Twitter.  Dependency much, Moe?]

[ANOTHER UPDATE: I keep forgetting that these posts auto-propagate.  It’s aggravating! – Although not having Twitter around? Not so much. It’s a quite a bit less nerve-wracking than I expected, in fact.]

10 thoughts on “Trying a Twitter experiment.”

  1. I can empathize. Although Twitter was never attractive to me, I just recently ditched Facebook for similar reasons, which has been strangely liberating.
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    Of course, I still come *here* and comment…

  2. I snagged my name on twitter in 2009, but have never sent a single tweet. With the direction they’re going, I’m unlikely to moving forward, so I’m thinking of deleting it.

    1. I *think* I’ve tweeted 4 times. No, you won’t find me under this name, but I’m out there.
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      Keeping my account, for now, but .. I’m one of the receivers of content, not a creator… different dynamic.
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      Mew

  3. I am trying to quit Twitter. I just decided that for me, because my use of it was limited, it was not worth supporting their speech policies. I did enjoy using Twitter as an outlet for my conservative opinions that my FB friends would not appreciate. Libs are perfectly comfortable imposing their opinions on anyone and everyone in any setting. I try not to be so bold. I am hoping that I am successful in leaving Twitter.

  4. I quit Tweeting during the 2012 election…the signal-to-noise ratio made it too aggravating.
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    I don’t miss it, your mileage may vary.
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    I’ve also pulled back from the web. I’m down to five, non-special interest blogs daily, Moe included, of course.
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  5. This is where I’m glad I never got on either the Twitter or Facebook bandwagon. Granted I’ve had my own Internet addictive behavior in the past (notably, Wolfpack empire) so don’t take this as casting stones here.

  6. I find “habituated” to be a nice old-timey sounding word that gets across a slight negative connotation (most habits we discuss are bad ones..) without the harsh negatives of “addiction” ..
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    I also find it presents it’s own solution – I am “habituated” to visiting moelane.com .. I can break this habit .. if I want to.
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    Mew

    1. Why would you want to? For me, Moe has been a political sanity check (which has returned consistent ‘mostly still sane’ feedback). We disagree on a few points, but I fully agree that the nomination of Donald Trump will be adequate cause to disengage from a political process that has become devoid of sanity. Of course, there are other candidates I find completely unacceptable to me, even though they do not represent a complete departure from sanity….

      1. Oh, I *don’t* want to break this habit. The daily visits to Moe’s aren’t, as far as I can tell, a *bad* habit.
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        I’m just saying .. I could. Same way I’d break any other habit I regard as bad.
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        Mew

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