Life: Square Peg, Often Round Hole

Some observations.

I don’t know how successfully I will make this point, but damn if I won’t try, ya know?

I’ve thought a lot about social media since maybe early 2019. I broadly view it as a joke. I think Facebook has become the domain of old white men in Barca-Loungers opining on “The Wuhan Flu” and sharing misleading bullshit, then a few woke liberals clapping back at them. As is common, the far 3% of each side — right and left — dominate the entire discussion, making things seem very fraught. (They’re better than you realize.) LinkedIn? A joke, too. I’ve been on it consistently since 2012. I’ve had a few years where they email me in December and say I’m one of the most engaging users in my geographic area. I’ve gotten work from the platform maybe once. I like Twitter, have made some friends there, but it’s also the one that “can’t monetize” and “gets hacked.” I hated IG when I was on there. It’s all low-context life stuff that somehow we call “Stories.” I never did Snapchat, even though I have a friend who works there.

Well, I started thinking about social more because I was broke for a lot of 2019 — doing better now — and I was using it here and there to try and get work, but I’d always get shamed by people telling me I was “too transparent” or “too open” or “too real.” It was always funny to me because … we always…