Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is

Participating in Social Media Surrenders One's Attention

The first thing I noticed was that I suddenly lacked an outlet for the compulsion not to write.1 It wasn’t news to me that I used social media for procrastination purposes, but without it, I found myself lacking an easy source for distractions. It dawned on me that I’d mostly stopped visiting websites directly and…

Jun 20, 2017 1 1

• attention
• social media
• tribalism