positives:
-hobbies. I am progressing rapidly in guitar playing and I have read 39 books so far this year.
-mental health. the thinking/speech and reading comprehension problems i had during heavy twitter usage have faded. i.e. overexplaining myself to defend against attacks when I'm just talking to one person irl. allowing myself to have complex consideration of things rather than immediate reactions. much less anxiety and feeling of being perceived, and the impulse to Post is almost gone
-so much time regained. it feels weird that I used to spend hours at a time online. feverish days dedicated to finding out what bad things happened and spreading them out of fear and anxiety, leaving myself in a useless state until I slept. now I can catch up on an entire days' worth of stuff on my phone in 5 minutes between offline activities.
-finally being on the right side of the "jesse wtf are you talking about" meme where people have to catch me up on stuff that sounds like it's a different language and describe main characters I don't know.
negatives:
-still coming down from the stimulation of being able to see everyone work/joke/discuss (in the rare times it was positive). i feel extremely disconnected and lonely, life feels slow
-finding out which relationships could be ported from the site onto other platforms and which ones seemingly only existed there has been hard on me
-illusory feel that all networking/promo is still happening there (i'm told it's pretty dead and a shell of its former self but I still feel like I'm fucking up not being there) -it annoys me that so much culture does still only occur there despite it getting so much worse
-general experience of going from overstimulation straight to quieter and lonelier slower-paced life
yet to be seen
-how an album release goes without twitter! will be finding out very soon
