The State of My Social Media

It's been 8 months since I left Twitter, 1 month since I started posting on Substack, and I was about to add "1 month since I've been unemployed" but I just got an email from my recruitment agency with a temp job for April. *Relief*

I can’t shake off the feeling that social media is now pointless, a vast void where you throw your thoughts and images inside, where you are “competing” against professional click baiters. It’s like an endless stream of egos and “notice me”, and you are there too, with your own “notice me” tactics.

And yet, I know it's not pointless. It has helped me immensely, during periods when I was isolated (when I first moved to London in 2001 and now, living a solitary life in a remote village in Brazil.)

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The State of My Livejournal

I forgot to mention LJ in my last post, but it's worth bringing it up as well.

I now have only 5 active friends here! It's such a change from the earlier years, when I had over 300 active friends. I've been reading my LJ chronologically (currently in 2009) and we all posted so often back then, and there were so many comments...

I've been thinking: with the advent of A.I., if there was some way for Livejournal to incorporate it and give us a functionality that translated posts and comments, maybe that would open a new world for us? We could start connecting with the other side of LJ, and vice versa?

That's my tip for you, LJ Development Team!