{"id":8515,"date":"2023-01-05T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/im-horribly-addicted-to-twitter-will-elon-musk-save-me-from-myself-this-year-joel-snape\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:37:27","slug":"im-horribly-addicted-to-twitter-will-elon-musk-save-me-from-myself-this-year-joel-snape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/im-horribly-addicted-to-twitter-will-elon-musk-save-me-from-myself-this-year-joel-snape\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m horribly addicted to Twitter. Will Elon Musk save me from myself this year? | Joel Snape"},"content":{"rendered":"

If only Musk would sacrifice his fortune and reputation and close down the site, people like me could get back to doing something useful with our time<\/p>\n

Where are we all going when Twitter dies<\/a>? Mastodon? Hive? Back to sitting in saggy armchairs reading chunky books? Personally, I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s the latter, but I\u2019m not optimistic. Twitter, of course, has been designed by a lot of very clever people to be extremely addictive, and if everyone switches to something else, it will probably be because it\u2019s more addictive again, prodding all our dopamine-spiking buttons in some as-yet-undiscovered sequence with which battered airport paperbacks will be even less able to compete. Which, come to think of it, means it definitely won\u2019t be Mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I\u2019m hopelessly addicted to Twitter, like so many journalists who pretend we are using it for our jobs. I\u2019ve tried to tie myself to the mast like Odysseus, installing apps that block it at certain hours or force me to take a cooling off period before I refresh the page, but I always find a way around them. Even if you delete your account entirely, there\u2019s a 30-day cooling-off period, during which I inevitably re-up, like Odysseus with a pocketknife inside his tunic.<\/p>\n

Joel Snape is a writer and fitness expert<\/p>\n

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\nIf only Musk would sacrifice his fortune and reputation and close down the site, people like me could get back to doing something useful with our time
\nWhere are we all going when Twitter dies? Mastodon? Hive? Back to sitting in saggy armchairs reading chunky books? Personally, I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s the latter, but I\u2019m not optimistic. Twitter, of course, has been designed by a lot of very clever people to be extremely addictive, and if everyone switches to something else, it will probably be because it\u2019s more addictive again, prodding all our dopamine-spiking buttons in some as-yet-undiscovered sequence with which battered airport paperbacks will be even less able to compete. Which, come to think of it, means it definitely won\u2019t be Mastodon.
\nObviously, I\u2019m hopelessly addicted to Twitter, like so many journalists who pretend we are using it for our jobs. I\u2019ve tried to tie myself to the mast like Odysseus, installing apps that block it at certain hours or force me to take a cooling off period before I refresh the page, but I always find a way around them. Even if you delete your account entirely, there\u2019s a 30-day cooling-off period, during which I inevitably re-up, like Odysseus with a pocketknife inside his tunic.
\nJoel Snape is a writer and fitness expert Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If only Musk would sacrifice his fortune and reputation and close down the site, people like me could get back to doing something useful with our time Where are we all going when Twitter dies? Mastodon? Hive? Back to sitting in saggy armchairs reading chunky books? Personally, I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s the latter, but I\u2019m not …<\/p>\n

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