A few days each week, I relax, step away from all screens, and begin recalling my day. I’ll think of a tweet I wrote, then panic and wonder if it was offensive or schlocky, then scroll down 24 hours of tweets and panic some more. The persona I’ve built on that website is insufferable, charitably, 30 percent of the time.
Wouldn’t it be nice to push that to zero? I have been thinking about this, to blot out the reality of everything, and have some ideas for self-policing. This stuff always seems realer when I publish it.
No dunking. Enough of this, of making sure 580,000 readers see a bad comment by someone with 300 followers. Enough of quote-tweeting someone prominent with a hit-and-run joke. Who is this for? Wouldn’t it be better for everyone if I actually just interacted with this person as a reporter, or not at all?
Fewer dead memes. I didn’t say none. My comic philosophy is that running gags are funny at first, then slightly less funny, then incredibly funny forever. But: I’ve done too much commenting on a news story with an obvious pun.
More information. I get quotes and find images and videos all day; just some of this makes it into articles. If I am consuming content, I should be sending content back into the universe, keeping the balance.
Let me ponder this and see if it makes me less of a pain online. Tossing the most banal thoughts onto this website instead - that might help.