I’ve mostly stayed off of social media for the past few months — not because I’m taking any kind of intentional detox, but because I’ve had a hard time figuring out the right role of social for myself, a recovering evangelist about social media’s power who is now increasingly ambivalent about its effects on society.
Chrissy Teigen put it succinctly when she recently quit Twitter: “This no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively.” One could apply that logic to the entire social industrial complex, which has an oversized effect on our interpretation of reality.
