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Sep. 21st, 2016 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwildeI think today I need to avoid Tumblr and FB. Most of what I see there is upsetting and horrifying. I'm taking a break from Trump, police shootings, Syria, the Dakota pipeline, oil spills, political memes, and all that noise. Yes, I know it's a privilege to be able to do that, but all it is doing is stressing me and sapping my will. It'll be there when I can handle it again, which is just so awful to realize.
One of the things I don't like about FB and Twitter, and quickly Tumblr as well since Tumblr seems to want to kill tag tracking, is how it's a ceaseless firehose of information which I don't seem to have much control over. I'm having a similar problem with Mixcloud. I keep seeing uploads from feeds I don't follow and I can't figure out how to stop it. I just don't have the filters to ignore content I don't want to see and it bothers me that I have to scroll through crap to find the feeds I do want to listen too. Bah.
I'm also getting sick of the political/petition spam I get in my inbox.
OK, enough complaining. Onto work projects. I'm going to try doing three, then tagging, then three again. See if I can't keep up with threads and be productive.
One of the things I don't like about FB and Twitter, and quickly Tumblr as well since Tumblr seems to want to kill tag tracking, is how it's a ceaseless firehose of information which I don't seem to have much control over. I'm having a similar problem with Mixcloud. I keep seeing uploads from feeds I don't follow and I can't figure out how to stop it. I just don't have the filters to ignore content I don't want to see and it bothers me that I have to scroll through crap to find the feeds I do want to listen too. Bah.
I'm also getting sick of the political/petition spam I get in my inbox.
OK, enough complaining. Onto work projects. I'm going to try doing three, then tagging, then three again. See if I can't keep up with threads and be productive.
