Offline Dispatch #1

It’s been two weeks since I logged out of Twitter and haven’t logged back in. So far, so good. A few things helped- turning my profile on private mode so the tantalizingly ego boosting prospect of people Googling my name (an old hang-up from the journalist days) and coming across my page and looking at dated tweets (yes, I am aware its just been two weeks and literally no one has noticed) is gone, for one. The other is that I still have the app on my phone but I’m logged out- so if I mindlessly click on a tweet link someone has shared with me it gets redirected to my logged out app rather than to the signed-in Chrome.

I want to say that I have really struggled during this time but I actually haven’t. I suspect this is the novelty factor (“oh no, I’m so sorry but I can’t check this because I haven’t been on Twitter in X days”) so lets see how we feel two more weeks from now. Fingers crossed!