Social Media Disaster The Great Disconnect Why I'm Running Back to the Woods from Social Media
For much of my life, I’ve avoided using “social media”. I enjoyed chatting on IRC in 1990’s. My days, thankfully, were filled with the tangible, the immediate, the deeply human interactions that required no glowing screen or algorithmic intermediary. My existence, as I perceived it, simply did not necessitate their embrace. Yet, as the tide of the digital age relentlessly surged, it became undeniable: everyone, it seemed, had waded in. Even those who once held fast to the shores of tradition—our elders, our stoic relatives—have found themselves navigating these increasingly turbulent waters.




