02/22/2025
Have been meaning to write about this for a while ... I've been uncomfortable with socials for a long time, this current platform for years, and now feel absolutely ill about it. There is no permutation of reality where I can feel ok engaging with this & enmeshed platforms, it’s antithetical to all I value. I’ll be deleting my accounts asap.
As an artist and small business person, social media is a huge part of building an audience and marketing. I havn’t figured out how I’m going to pivot so will keep my personal and business profiles here for the short term while I sort that out. I made an account (same name) where the sky is blue though i'm not convinced that will result in a significantly different outcome over time. Once I have a space I feel more ethically aligned with, I’ll post those links then delete all my accounts associated with the dark forces that make my inner core of my being wither and scream simultaneously.
What makes this hard is that these platforms have become a way for special interest groups and communities to interact easily. However, the ways in which the information we provide and the business practices of the so-called leadership are directly contributing to a crazy dangerous free-fall across political, social, cultural, economic, environmental, health, justice, civil society, humanitarian, etc spheres. It's unfathomable to me what I'm seeing. I will not be party to it any longer.
And yes, there is much more for me to do to confront all these issues. This is one step among many.
