It's been a long time. I bet you thought this blog was dead? Well it might be. I took a break from social media on a doctor's advice, so here I am not on social media but back to my long abandoned blog. We're in the middle of the second Trumpian nightmare, but it turns out that hearing about it and/or writing about it or even reposting articles, memes or videos constantly can be bad for my health. Most of the health and well being issue is more about the algorithms and the way that social media sort of tricks your brain to stay on the website and keep clicking and scrolling. 

Taking a break from social media had immediate results. I suddenly felt better, lighter. I didn't miss it that much because to be honest I wasn't getting that much out of it in return. I am mostly a big sharer-- finding things from multiple sources and then "spreading the love" by sharing it. I don't always have that much to say especially when an article says it all, but I suspect that my friends weren't seeing much of whatever I posted with  a link, maybe because clicking away from the primary social media website is counter to the goal of keeping you on the website to show you ads. I'm just guessing, but they do make their money from ads, don't they? Like, all their money. So it turns out that social media isn't really about being social. It's maybe about addicting your brain to certain forms of stimulus to keep you on a website and being subjected to advertising. Fun times, but our brains aren't really built for that. The technique includes "top down" and "bottom up" programming, apparently. You can look it up but I might provide a link. I don't know though, wouldn't want you clicking away now, would I? In my case the overall effect started to manifest as both anxiety and depression. I'm not saying that you can't or shouldn't do social media but if I* was offering advice I'd say keep hard limits on it and use it with your own discipline to get out of it exactly what you want out of it. That's all for now I guess. Maybe more later.