You know those moments between moments? The time when you’re moving from one activity to the next, and you take a minute to check your phone. You open Facebook or another social media app, read the comments, and instantly regret it. That was how my morning started.
Around the time of the baseball Winter Meetings and the swirling of hot stove rumors I decided to open the app formerly known as Twitter, and for a bit it was good. My feed was entirely baseball related. Nothing about anything else. Then nothing happened at the Winter Meetings or for the weeks after and I kept using the app.
Then everything else happened. The world exploded in a series of divisive events and the true cesspool nature of the safe space that is Xitter emerged. At one point in time Twitter was the best social media platform for real time events. It was great for watching sports, interacting with friends in reaction to real time events, and getting news as it happened. As Twitter underwent the Kafkaesque transition into Xitter all of that was lost.
The new owner of the app only wanted it to be a safe space for the worst of humanity and that is what it has become. Some people venture back to it and try and use it how it was, but their voices are quickly drowned out by the sheer amount of pond scum accumulated at the top.
Using that app is the worst decision anyone can make, and yet I keep opening it. I got back in the habit looking for baseball news and now all I can see is the worst people humanity has to offer having a massive circle jerk. The answer is to not open it. Move from one activity to the next without touching the phone. Keep everything closed.
Who would willingly bathe in a cesspool of hell? No one. So, why am I opening that app? Why do I keep looking at it and finding deeper and deeper depths to the madness of man?
David Huzzard Writes 