In today’s modern technological age, if you are off social media, off the internet, or generally opposed to haphazardly sharing everything about your life online, you are considered by many to be ‘invisible and irrelevant.’ 

If you don’t tweet, don’t post, don’t comment, like, or follow, then you don’t exist. 

What a shame it has become that we’ve devalued things like intentional living, focus, patience, and risk taking, in favor of constant checking, and distracted work.

I’m not anti Internet, and I’m not anti social media, but I am opposed to much of the culture that our tech saturated world has created. 

I don’t like the increased anxiety I see in people from the constant desire to check their phones. I don’t like that we add numerical values to a persons popularity, and I don’t like the culture of encouraging everyone to mindlessly follow everyone, without putting any effort into filtering what’s coming in and out of their lives. 

For all of those negatives, there are some major positives as well. I think for myself, right now, I’m taking the time away from social media to evaluate what those positives are for me, and how I can use them most effectively.

I’m also working to hopefully find a unique singular voice and purpose, in a noisy and distracted world. It doesn’t have to be better, or worse than anyone else’s. It just needs to be my own.