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Posted in Social media boring Posted 4 years ago

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I felt this post to my core. Last night I logged into Gaia for the first time in a while and I couldn't help but reminisce on its early years. I became a member in 2006 and was fairly young (I believe I might've been in 5th or 6th grade), but I managed to make lots of internet friends (with parental supervision lol) and I remember having so much fun with them on there for years. Same with DeviantArt and same with the early years of Twitter. Twitter is my main go-to, but anymore it's just been so dry and boring. A lot, if not all, of my close Twitter friends are no longer active or have moved on in their lives with school, work, families, etc. And the select few that are still on don't really interact with me anymore (and probably don't remember me after a couple hiatuses between me and them). Now most of my Twitter interactions are with a friend from college, some random people who follow me, or a few people I met on Discord a few years ago, but even then there isn't much interaction like there was in the good ol' days. And now with people on Twitter damn near arguing everyday, everyone getting offended over everything, everyone spreading misinformation, and etc, I've unfollowed/muted/and blocked so many words and so many people that my timeline is mostly just ads, dry tweets that I could care less about, shops, and random celebrities. The internet overall feels so dry to me lately, too. YouTube is boring, my emails are dry, I don't socialize much on Voltra so I only pop in for a little bit at a time, and other than that I just don't know what to do online anymore.