I’ve been off social media, for the most part, for the last year, and it’s been great. The few times I’ve poked my head in, it’s nice to see friends, but the overall effect of social media, on me, has been utterly toxic, and I’m finding that as much as I love seeing everyone’s life, the positives are mostly illusory – not real relationships, not real memories – in favor of real outrage and stress, which is ultimately what drives the engines of most social media.

So I thought I was going to take a break, but in the end, I’m just done. For me, the experiment of the internet “connecting people” is a failure. I appreciate that others will have different experiences, and so I’m not saying anything about *your* experience. But the one thing I’d suggest is that Facebook and Twitter are fundamentally, fatally flawed, because their business models drive a kind of decision-making behavior that will never put your sanity and well-being first.

With that, I hope to hear from you and see you in real life, sometime!