pepopowitz’s avatarpepopowitz’s Twitter Archive—№ 736

        1. After realizing my last post was at least partially just fishing for dopamine, I decided to back away from social media for the week. You'll never believe what happened next!
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        It was mostly an uninspiring experiment. I didn't feel like my life had turned around. I did have a great week, but I blame that mostly on being in the Florida sun with my family. We saw dolphins, and went boogie boarding! Do kids still call it that?
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      I didn't uninstall anything. I still got notifications, I just tried hard to ignore them. Mostly it was easy. But @Twitter ... Holy geez, do they prey on Fomo. I'm not sure if they ramp up the notifications when you're not using the app, or if it was just more noticeable. Yuck.
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    I *did* feel bad when I got a real actual mention, and by principle couldn't respond. Sorry internet friends, I still ♥️ and/or ⭐ you!
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      I replaced a lot of my mindless scrolling time with reading the news. I definitely don't think that was great for my psyche, but I'm like super informed now! Did you know our president used to be on a reality show???!!! And they change like every four years or so???? Wow!!
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        Maybe I should have uninstalled apps, so I didn't get any notifications. Maybe the tendrils of this parasite are really deep in me, and I just can't or don't want to totally extract it. Maybe I'm just a semi-willing host. The (uninspiring and anti-climactic) end.