More and more, I step away from social media. More and more often. I find little to no benefit in it. The issue that brings me back to it is simple: I am very alone. I have my co-workers, my father, my mother, brother and my son. Those are the only people who seem to be consistently there. Sometimes I think that living in the city would simplify the issue but... that would be difficult to manage making happen.
I disappeared and no one noticed.
It seems sanity is slowly slipping away in regards to the general populace and as it does, I retract more and more.
(5/12/2025) I went back, to some small degree, to social media. I fell back into the same trappings, the same routines and had to run away, yet again. the problem is so, so easy for myself to get away from but... if I want other people to actually try to be active in my life. It's almost as though they forget you exist once you go online. We're destroying ourselves on a social-structure level through our ever-increasing reliance on technology to replace various aspects in our lives. How much longer until AI-driven classrooms via VR begin to pop-up and replace in-person classrooms? The damage such a thing could cause... and I don't doubt we'd go for it, push for it...
(6/3/2025) We seem to live in an age of complaint and I believe that this is something fueled by an excess of boredom in general. When we're bored, we want purpose and motivation. Without it, we seek it and complain about the lack thereof. The same goes for the amount of dramatics. One of the most common (due to being one of the easiest) ways of relieving oneself of boredom is through the act of sadism. Complaints and dramatics allow for the finding of victims of sadism whether it's intentional or not. I believe that in life, we need a bit more struggle than we desire. For example, it's entirely easy to just microwave our food. It's a "struggle" to cook our food on the stovetop. However, it's more active and keeps us busy, staving off boredom.