social-digital exhaustion
I am not the first one to mention the tiredness people get from being connected online. Yet, I want to share my thoughts on this new phenomenon. I have been getting it more and more lately. People sending me memes, group chats blowing up to plan things, and constant barrages of videos I want to watch and 'important' news I must be caught up with. I decided to choose my consumption better, to choose my connections better.
I still have my facebook account, but I deleted 75% of my friends because most of them I never spoke to. They were friends of friends, people I met once or twice, or people I only faintly remember now. I mentioned this in Deleting Ghosts. It felt good, freeing even. Since then, I have ran into one awkward moment where I encountered someone that I unfriended. It was worth it though.
I also decided to better choose my consumption habits. Now, I have regressed a few times. No one is perfect. But I have been buying second-hand dvd's and been watching those instead of just watching streaming services. I feel like I choose my movies and shows more then if I were just clicking away on Netflix.
I have a typewriter, which I plan on using more and more. I haven't been writing with it much, but that is because I need some ink ribbons. My friend recently got one and told me he sent me a letter in the mail. From that excitement, I have decided to try to dedicate myself to write to him at least once a week. Spend some time off my screen writing things. It also helps me get more familiar with the typewriter, cause it's an old one.
This has just been a series of thoughts and rambles. I hope to come back and fix or arrange some stuff better.