Like any millennial who spends way too much time online, I have a lot of conflicting thoughts on using social media. Every social media platform I use has some huge benefits but also some disappointing drawbacks. I gravitated most towards Twitter, despite hating Twitter with every fiber of my being. I genuinely love using these platforms (or, at least, I’m addicted) but…they’re also pretty unsatisfying.
It’s hard not to be a little nostalgic for how the web was before: a bursting collection of individual websites that were all completely personalized and had individual uses. I think we all had a lot more of an appetite back then to diligently use RSS Feeds and Bookmark folders. Even when I tell myself I should do that now, I can barely muster the effort. Aside from typing a few URLs into Chrome’s auto-complete, I mostly just gravitate towards clicking links I find on social media posts. Then I go back to infinite-scrolling.
The older I get, the more I wish I had a sort of “home base” online. A sort of hub world. A place I can put all my stuff, decorate and customize it, and people can enjoy it.