I know it’s not just me feeling tired and overwhelmed by the internet these days. Proof is in the small rise of people going analog. I think a lot of people are realizing how much mental bandwidth being constantly online is making us. I’m not any different. I managed to lessen my Instagram and Facebook usage last year but what I failed to realize is, I just substituted it with more Reddit and Youtube. I’m tired of it. The algorithm doesn’t give you anymore random suggestions so it made me stuck in the same loop and ideas over and over again. It’s absolutely maddening. Same clickbait titles, same trends, same few opinions. Ugh. So I thought I’d start listening to podcasts instead. Not the Youtube ones but actual podcasts you can listen to on any app you choose. That became exhausting too. Now I’m subbed to hundreds of them, in different topics, but I’m overwhelmed picking what to listen to. Why did I follow tons of them, you ask? Because it drove me crazy listening to one singular…
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