So, at the beginning of our fall break, I decided to go on a social media hiatus. I’m not on Facebook. I think Facebook is straight-up an evil company and truly feel that EVERYONE should delete their Facebook accounts because they do bad things and make the world worse. I AM on Instagram, which is where I publish my Maurice cartoons, and I am also aware of the irony that Instagram is owned by Facebook, but contradiction is balance and Instagram doesn’t appear to be a place where Uncle Bill goes to post rants about the government and stupid crap about how Joe Biden is a pedophile. Instagram seems to be a place where people just post aspirational lifestyle photos of their own lives. Aside from giving a a whole generation of people FOMO and body issues, it seems to be relatively harmless in my estimation, though I wish the government would break up the Facebook corporation. I have just as much loathing for WhatsApp.

Twitter was my main problem. I have found the the endless scroll of Twitter was becoming an issue with me, mainly because that endless scroll was nothing about liberal outrage at the world, specifically Trump.

Now, I, like any sane human being, think Trump is the vision of incompetence and seems to embody every single one of the worst aspects of human beings. He is a toad of a human being and I look forward to the day when Trump no longer exists and I never have to think of him again. Indeed, anyone who has any kind of support for Trump or the people that surround him or his policies…well, they’re simply terrible human beings, and I have reached a point where I will say it to their ignorant faces.

But that’s the problem. My Twitter feed was nothing but a bunch of people just saying the same thing I was thinking, all on an endless scroll. It was constant outrage. It was constant negativity. It was people zeroing in on every bad thing in the world. And people were under the impression that they were doing some kind of service to the world by constantly posting about it. As if we needed to be reminded and as if THEY were the only ones who could do anything good about it.