The case against logging off

Notes

• Not the egg v kylie jenner

• brat summer

• “there was this piece that I think I sent it to you that I hated so much in 404 media and the headline is you can’t post your way out of fascism authoritarian and tech CEOs now share the same goal to keep us locked in eternal doom scroll instead of organizing against them i’m curious your response to this piece i hated it so much because it completely ignored basically like all digital activism i don’t know like some of the most important digital activism that like people have done over the past few years and completely dismissed the way that the right has leveraged these tools like it sort of just gave into this idea that the internet is dominated by the right and so kind of we have to like log off and I don’t know do stuff IRL how we would plan that stuff IRL I don’t know I guess certainly not online”

  • yeah I think there must be some sort of happy medium. I’ve been trying to reshape my relationship with being online as someone who has been chronically online since I was 13. I deleted my facebook and my twitter ~ 7 months ago. Facebook, was mostly just connecting with my grandma, who I’ve cut ties with anyways, so that was kinda easy. But twitter was hard. But it was something I’ve been considering for a while because being on those platforms was not what it once was anyways. I kept yearning for what it used to be more and more and hated how it kept me entertained, but disconnected. I stopped connecting with people on the platform, it became entertainment, and while still self expression to me, oftentimes, no one really interacted on twitter. It used to be a huge tool to connect with the people I knew in real life. But it stopped being that.

  • I also think I’m done being a tiktok foot solider. I’m throwing in the towel.For now. My brain needs a break. It was too much. I’ll miss the laughs, but I want to try to spend more time actually socializing lol.

• “ideally you do both”

• learn from out history/past obsicles

• going back to the 90’s? you mean back to top down power?

  • aim for a pro tech future that isn’t controlled by corporate power.