Determination

I closed my Metafilter account today, and deleted all the bookmarks. It had been increasingly clear to me that I was not getting much pleasure out it, only a lot of irritation. This was before I listened to a Talking Politics episode in which Jill Lepore appeared and talked about social media. What she was talking about was really the collection of data and to some degree its creation of separated worlds, but there is something very toxic indeed about online interaction, it far too often brings the worst self forward. And Metafilter is, at the end of the day, a prehistoric form of social media. Though I listened to the episode after closed the account, it seemed to fit into a stream of thought and in my mind, now, it comes before.