POS, not POSSE

“In my last sustained period on Twitter, six or seven years ago I guess, when I was still promoting my published writings, I remember often — quite often — getting replies or quote-tweets from people who had no idea what I was saying but wanted to comment on it in a way that corroborated or reinforced their sense of themselves, their social self-presentation, a social self-presentation that typically took the form of performative partisan self-righteousness.”

Jacobs response to Mandy's post caught my attention and I've been thinking about both posts since originally reading them. I'm with Jacobs here, but my reasoning for not doing syndication is dramatically different. I have no idea how many people read my site as I have no analytics on here, but I don't want the words traveling anywhere else because I would feel obligated to then be on those sites more and checking replies and responding to people so as not to be rude. Weird, but it's the way I'm wired. I really can't do social media, it does things to my brain that are really not good for me.