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10 reasons to leave twitter:
- Gamification of the twitter economy/ Twitter is a drug.
Like a casino everything which makes up the medium of exchange which is twitter has been carefully constructed to one track you to the company’s desired outcome. Twitter is what is referred to as a Push-Polling service for governments and NGOs. That is Twitter exists to simultaneously push narratives, behaviors, and provide insight and instant feedback.
Your profile, how many likes, how many reactions, times you are seen, and all the other metrics twitter serves you are illusory. They do not really exist in free form, but are selected for you in order to use your dopamine pathways to lock in certain behaviors. Just like a casino uses bright lights, sounds and the occasional win to get you hooked, or video games use rewards, sounds and achievements to program certain desired reflexes into gamers. So, the likes, the reposts, the blue highlighted marks, and the twitter feed has been deliberately curated to hack into your brain’s pleasure and reward cycle and manipulate it to keep you engaged with the narrative and behaviors twitter is used to push.
Anything which hijacks your brain chemistry in order to stimulate good feelings without work is a drug (video games are a drug if you weren’t already aware). How many of you twitter users have caught yourselves listlessly scrolling twitter only to realize you have been clicking and viewing content for an hour and can’t remember a single thing you’ve read?
- Sensory overload and desensitization
Twitter desensitizes you; the medium is the message. People browse through thousands of short snippets a day which are called tweets. They are so short, and people view so many of them that in order to get noticed and game likes and subscriptions the tweets all vie to be as emotionally hard hitting as they can. The most successful tweeters, or twats, have made an art out of manipulating people’s emotions, getting them upset, so they get engagement. It is simply not healthy to get emotionally worked up many times a day. You are the master of your emotions, they exist to serve you, not others. Letting someone manipulate your feelings means you have lost control of yourself.
- Twitter makes you angry.
Most of the tweets you see on twitter, especially the political ones, are written to make you upset and angry. Anger causes people to act impulsively, to not think things through, and to be irrational. It’s great for a battlefield, not if you have habitual zed, it too multiple times a day. That amount of anger is bad for your mental and physical wellbeing as it will rewire your brain to make you “act black” and will raise your stress hormone level shortening your life. The funny thing is that chronically angry people always underperform in stressful situations, so for example if your getting upset and angry all the time because of crime you are going to be less well equipped to handle a confrontation with a criminal.
- Makes you dumber.
Twitter does in fact make you dumber. Intelligence means thinking deeply, it requires focus, concentration, thoroughness, and a certain almost meditative quality. Twitter is a mentally jolting experience in which the brain tackles a subject begins to engage it and then the subject is ripped away and replaced with something else. That type of start stop start stop behavior ruins the mind over the long term and molds a person to react on impulse and instinct, which is the opposite of intelligence.
Think of all the hours and days, that you have spent on twitter. List ten skills which you have learned, too hard? How about list 10 things which you have learned and where you learned them, can you do it? For that kind of investment don’t you think you should have something positive to show from it? At the end of the day there isn’t much difference between Twitter and watching the 6 O’clock news.
- It’s rigged against you
Twitter is rigged against you. You will never be twitter famous. Remember twitter’s mission is to be a push polling service so that means in order to garner hundreds of thousands of followers you have to be selected for it. Every one of the followers represents someone’s attention span for a limited time every day. That means if you have a thousand followers on aggregate you influence a certain amount of people. A hundred thousand followers and that number is a hundred times more with the added bonus that as someone with that kind of exposure you have a certain authority about you. Therefore, being at that level makes an influencer a kind of employee of twitter, twitter pays these people after all doesn’t it? Thus, if you are independent you will not ever make it to that level. Twitter is not an even playing field of ideas don’t let anyone fool you into thinking it is.
In fact Twitter makes you anti social. Aside from shock reactions there is very little engagement on twitter. Everyone has been compartmentalized into nice little algorithmically designed boxes which are segregated from each other. There is very little debate and the flow of information is top down through influencers. You are effectively silenced and your voice has not even been drowned out, it was never heard.
- Highly curated, not organic.
Remember how bad the mainstream media is? How liberal and manipulative it is? Well, what if I told you they solved that problem by using a global tech company to create an information communications monopoly which used AI and algorithms? Sounds retarded right? FDR once said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” This was in an age when the most sophisticated form of communication was the telegraph and radio. Twitter is politics, it is the manipulation of the political body of the world and almost a century later with our instant forms of communication we are left with the inevitable conclusion that everything which trends, everything which gets talked about on twitter is talked about because it is planned that way. Just like the mainstream media has its story lines and narratives, so does twitter. To allow those inorganic feeds to capture your attention means that you are giving your mind over to those who wish to capture it. Ask yourself: I have only a limited amount of time today, why am I spending my time thinking about something I didn’t care about 1 minute ago?
- Not America-First
Twitter is not America First. It’s not patriotic, it is not even pro-western. It’s “owner” (we really don’t know who owns twitter) is a satanist immigrant from South Africa, possible Jew, technocratic midwit, who apparently has nothing better to do than pay women to have his IVF babies and play Diablo 4. If that’s not the narrative you’ve been sold you can look it up and thank me later. Most of the main twitter accounts are Gay, Foreign, or Third world. We live in a free country and freedom isn’t free, letting imposters, provocateurs, and foreign agents have the majority slice of our free discourse is a recipe for disaster and hostile take over. The price of freedom is vigilance and that means kicking these brown queers off their soapbox and throwing them back to ocean from whence they came, by helicopter if necessary.
Since that day is not upon us the best we can do is to fortify our mental real estate by not allowing these people in. Every time you read their tweets, like, or engage with them you are allowing bad actors who hate our country into your mind. You are letting foreign nations such as Russia and India dictate what the terms of conversation between Americans, Canadians, and fellow westerners are.
- It makes you defeated and negative.
Because Twitter is by and large run by our enemies it is curated to make its users overly pessimistic and negative. The constant barrage of grievance baiting, government misconduct, and fake martyrdom has an erosive effect on the will and the psyche. People who are drawn to twitter are likely to be those who are also called to be politically active. The defeatism of twitter is no accident as it promotes inactivity and losing. How many times do you read a sad sack story and all the comments do nothing buy whine: “We can’t even do this, we can’t even do that, they won’t let us….” How many times can you have to hear that kind of losing until you get sick to your stomach? Twitter has taken men and made them into whiners who are prisoners in their own heads. Have they even tried to do something about that which has aggrieved them so badly? No, of course not, if you’re a man you should not associated with that kind of weakness, it’s like an infectious disease of loserdom. Something to think about: if things really are as bad as you feel, why are you spending time on them? Say the world is going to end in a week, are you going to spend all your time watching the news talk about it, or our you going to spend your time trying to get right with God? We are put on this earth to become spiritually perfect in order to merit Heaven. Things that draw us away from that should be discarded.
- Designed to be a waste of time and energy suck.
Twitter is mental masturbation you’re spending your time making yourself feel good, but at the end of the day you are only screwing yourself. I challenge all of you to do a cost-benefit analysis of your twatting, sorry tweeting. Take the time you have put into it and the benefit you have gained from it. Pretty sad isn’t it? Most are drawn to twitter by the allure of your opinion making a difference, and most stay because they have become addicted. But you know what really enables your opinion to make a difference? Spending the same amount of time and effort you spend tweeting into learning skills which allow you to make more money and have better communication (but I’ve said the same thing twice). Say what you want about the equality of ideas, but when something is well said by someone who is rich and successful it hits a lot harder. Just like the difference between flirting and sexual harassment is being good looking, who you are matters.
- People take themselves way way way too seriously because twitter is social credit.
Like digital currency social credit is already here and it’s been around for some time. Twitter users have been gamified into making their online persona an extension of their fragile ego. They believe if they are ever shown to be wrong or lose an argument that they have lost face in front of everyone and can never recover. Twitter encourages this kind of behavior because everyone has incorporated the feeling of publicity, everything is exposed. You can call it social credit, or whatever you want, but the fact is if you change your behavior based on how you are perceiving others perceiving you, then you are not your own master. It’s kind of like people who avoid BJJ or boxing. Yes, you are going to be humbled when you first begin training, but objectively you will be a far better fighter than when you started. Most people cannot stand the fact that their idea of themselves does not match up to reality even if by exposing themselves to reality they make themselves better. Thus, they will use every cheap trick to preserve the lie and twitter is the medium which encourages this. This is how people really think and when you stop and realize the dynamic it becomes almost laughable. Has anybody in their personal lives ever batted 1,000? Never lost a round? Stop taking yourselves so seriously at the end of the day you’re just a couple bits on a screen and nobody remembers what was said 30 seconds ago. In fact, being humbled is a great learning experience and a great opportunity to learn more and grow if you can view your opponent not as your enemy, but as your teacher.
Bonus: Things aren’t really that bad
Most people will be (un)lucky if they experience one of the horrible things which they are bombarded with on twitter once in their lives. Yes, we are on the wrong trajectory and things are getting worse, but reality is not nearly as bad as it is made out to be. The streets are pretty safe, you can put food on the table, have a nice job, and a nice place to live. There is an irony that doesn’t get talked about, but I will let you in on a secret and that will be the end of this article. If everything and everyone is getting so much worse, then by comparison the opportunity for you to succeed increases if you remain the same. Think of how much more it will increase if you put your energy into becoming better.
It's difficult to argue with any of your points. I have to admit, if Twitter banned me, I wouldn't be all that disappointed.
Thanks. I would say your in a bit of a different boat than most of us since you have a website to market. Just needed to put my frustrations about twitter which have been brewing for some time out there.