Superfluous Social Media

I have a huge soft spot in my heart for Bomani Jones, his podcast is one of my favorites. Like almost everyone I listen to right now, he is questioning the value of social media. He is also questioning whether what we need is an alternative to twitter that serves the same purpose. I get that, and as I listen to someone smart folks questioning the value of social media communication, I’m coming back to the same question I’ve been asking for the past two years? Is it working for me? The answer is frequently no. It has helped me get into careers I’ve really wanted and helped me advance reasonably far in those careers. But I am still curious what I’m missing out on by filling many free minutes with social media when I could enjoy the feeling of waiting, thinking, being with my own thoughts et cetera. Podcasts are an out and out good. Wikipedia has made the majority of my careers possible. I reached a lot of people on social media and that helped me build a fanbase. I owe it to the awesome content/music I make to spread the word about where they can consume such content. But, I owe it to myself to stay off of it otherwise. Who knows what my brain can conjure if it’s not pulled into that cesspool quite so often.