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Short explanation of what I meant before that I had a personal rule about not using the "reply" function on Twitter.
2/ Maybe upwards of three years ago I now, I stopped using Twitter for the better part of a year. If you look at my timeline you'll still...
3/ see Tweets. And they are from me. But I never went to Twitter. I only tweeted TPM articles from our website. That's basically a ...
4/ job responsibility. But I never visited the site. So in practice I was off Twitter. I can't remember precisely how long I did this.
5/ But it was upwards of a year. Probably ended roughly two years ago. Why did I do this? Because I realized the toxicity of Twitter ..
6/ was seeping into my person. It was getting inside of me. I found myself angry or upset by things said by people I didn't know, didn't ...
7/ care about and in some cases were likely not even real - at least to the extent of not being who they claimed. To be clear, this wasnt ..
8/ a woe is me kind of thing. I was very much part of that. I have a temper. I can be cutting. It wasn't just the toxicity of Twitter.
9/ It was that Twitter brought out toxicity in me that eventually wore on me and bled into other parts of my life. So I stopped.
10/ Eventually I waded back in-partly I because I couldn't resist and partly because it's sort of in the nature of what I do professionally.
11/ But I felt I needed some rules for myself. Not "replying" was the main one I committed to. Over time I ended up using the quote ...
12/ function in a somewhat similar way. But when rules work for you, you keep to them. So I have. And I still find that avoiding ...
13/ the reply function provides me some insulation from the most toxic aspects of Twitter and the less lovely parts of myself.
