Jens Secret Diary

We'll Always Have Twitter / 18.09.23

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What You’re Missing: “…It was a fun outlet for satire, and I could kick a wasps nest pretty good there. But the wasps, unfortunately, went bananas…”

I decided, finally - once and for all - that I am leaving Twitter. Like when I left Facebook, I even did a dramatic notes app style countdown warning. I have given my followers 5 days to follow me elsewhere or else I am gone out of their lives forever. It’s pretty funny, really - because at the end of the day it’s just a website. No one cares when you leave Hotmail for good, or deactivate your IMDB account. But one thing leaving Facebook back in the day taught me is; people actually do care. Especially when it’s “social media”. Because to be leaving a social media site is to be “Unsociable”. And it’s not like there weren’t some fun, eventful times over in that Twitter-World. I sure did get up to some mischief. Hell, I even had a few legitimate “viral moments”. I’m sure some terf somewhere has a whole file of screenshots of me wishing death upon them, as if they weren’t always intended to be seen publicly. But if there’s one you know, it’s when it’s time to go. It’s something you can feel, deep in your stomach when the fun of a thing no longer compliments the pain of it.