#544: On Quitting Social Media

Some reflections

I recently told my social media accounts that I was absconding through the rest of 2024, and not only for Lent as is my custom. This is a decision I had begun contemplating since at least Christmastime, and which I found myself resisting as it grew closer. 

You might say I entered into this period of social media abstention a bit like many of Trollope’s …