Back in 2020, when if you'll recall we had a lot going on, I was annoyed about something and dashed off a tweet about it and that tweet ended up getting 30K likes and escaped the website as a screencap, and now fairly frequently pops up on various social media websites. This is the post. Maybe you've even seen this! How does this feel? Mostly not great! On one hand, it's certainly kind of validating people did agree with this and think it was funny. I'll own that! This was especially true when it was being shared among my friends and acquaintances in the original context1. It quickly got overwhelming though, it was so many notifications. So many eyes on my account the next few days. A lot of times when that happens people will look at your posts for things they don't like. I like to think I only post things people will like, but we all know that's not true! A kind of paranoia set in. That exposed feeling kind of continues to this day, to a degree. My estranged mother basically lives…
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