Why I've Quit Twitter (2016)

I'm sad to have now discovered this article by him which hasn't arguably aged well. Or let's say that I would have wished that Peter never trespassed into involving himself into the world of social justice. He couldn't be an authority in there and so I judge this article to be rather useless or superfluous.

On the other hand, I get it: If you spend too much time on Twitter it really can alter your perception such that you start to think in the patterns laid out in the article. Twitter is a parallel society. It's hella interesting but also not real.

But what happens on it isn't what happens in real life. Once you've gotten off of it, you start to understand.

Quitting Twitter and quitting smoking, in that regard, felt much alike.

Twitter has a tendency to put extra stuff in too, but you can control that by following or unfollowing topics.