Sometimes I feel like this site just can’t do the things I actually want out of social media.
I don’t just want to follow people and have them follow me and occasionally make a random comment or like on one of my posts ever once in a blue moon.
I want to build a community. I want to make friends. I want to be able to take those sporadic interactions and turn them into meaningful conversations and relationships.
But so far I’m getting a whole lot of the former and basically none of the latter. Every new person I’ve met on here just likes a post every once in a while and then vanishes.
I don’t blame them. I get it, sometimes you’re just not up to talking with people, especially someone you just met on the internet. But it’s the primary thing I use social media for. It’s my outreach to the world because I’m extremely isolated IRL. And it just feels like this site can’t provide that.