Is this thing on?

[thesnythe]

I've been reviewing my social media use lately, and it seemed like a change was in order. I nuked my Facebook account, because a) I never used it and b) Facebook is a bad actor. I've also changed how I use Twitter--it had been that I followed every last political thing, but it has become apparent that getting my news in an up-to-the-second fashion like that is really not great for my mental health. It also, due to the nature of Twitter, ended up exposing me to a lot of really stupid shit. I am now aware of scads of right wing grifters and a few left wing ones, not to mention every last little weird, useless outrage that popped up over the last god-knows-how-long, and none of that has enriched my life or made me a better citizen. So I've dramatically trimmed that back.

It occurred to me that the form of social media, if you want to call it that, that I most enjoyed, was LJ back in the day. Rather than an endless stream of retweets and forwarded articles, I got to read the unique thoughts of interesting people, and I got in the habit of maintaining a journal in a way that was actually useful to me.

So I thought I'd give this a try. It'll probably be mostly stuffed with thoughts on music and writing projects, as well as family stuff. We'll see how it goes. It would be good to get back in the habit, in any case.