If you’re not careful, social media will have you chasing attention from the wrong energies. That’s true offline as well, but the internet can really have its way with disguising an audience’s true selves.

I think about that every time I’ve posted something on multiple platforms.

Well I try to.

Sometimes I get that inner joyful ping when someone I admire reacts to something I shared directly or to the masses. It’s fun and surprising who’s paying attention.

I have to pace myself and not give into the hunger for viewership. I’ve seen too many people make posts about breaks they need from social media alone, often because the offline world is screaming to come back to them, or regain a balance.

Somewhere in the years of doing what I’ve done online, I know I’ve done the same types of posts. You can only take so much of the alphanumeric magnetism before tapping out.

Just because something has become woven into our daily lives doesn’t mean it has to risk emotional fatigue. There are enough human factors that can do that on their own. Last thing we need is to become bound to the ever-changing algorithms that refuses to pick its programmer’s side.

I’m not saying give up all your accounts and tech. I’m the last person that should be saying that. But when you start feeling that pull to check that next post, or check if one of your many crushes uploaded something new, do what you can to fall back and put that energy back into yourself.

All of that can wait until you’ve recharged first. I’ll get into more of how I’ve been doing that in the next entry.

D.F.