i grew up on twitter, met my first girlfriend there, connected and fell out with friend groups and made connections with fandoms, but the twitter i loved is not there anymore, and yet i still look for it. everyday! i miss the connections but it’s time to look somewhere else. maybe p.i can be that place for me from now on, who knows!
It was daunting at first to leave a place I regularly posted on for 10+ years and made so many connections through, but I don’t even think about it at this point. It became such a cesspool of bad vibes in the past couple years.
i deleted instagram like three years ago. intermittently on tiktok (like two-day binges every six months). no twitter and nothing else. i love this little app because it succeeds where all the others fail now: in building community. that’s everything IMO. i feel so free everyday and can’t imagine having mainstream social media anymore, between the ads, the people i don’t care about, the pressure, and the whole ickiness of it.
over time people have weaned off of it so no one follows me and it makes the flow of ~consciousness~ completely raw and in live time. I lost touch with it for years but it's back to being a bestie. I have a feeling this might be a similar platform, we shall seeeeee.
everything i am, everything i like and value in life is in direct opposition to how i was raised! small town cool kids are much cooler than big town kids, all the odds were against us and we had to fight for our own identities. plus, we grew up around trees 🌳🍃
