I think I'm finally on a bit of a role with posting everyday.  I still have my daily reminder on my phone - but I'm starting to think about it more consciously now as something I need to do each day - rather than it being something floating around in my mind that I should get to but then  forgetting to do it.

I've just spent about 15 minutes on Twitter.  Without fail, every time I scroll through Twitter these days I come away feeling very melancholy.

When I first started using Twitter in 2013 I loved it.  I got so many new ideas and resources that I wouldn't have found otherwise, particularly those related to my L&OD profession.  I loved that I could directly connect with people whose work I referenced and admired.

But now I find it's like visiting hell!  There is so much negativity and the lowest of low of human behaviour.  I really don't get any value from it anymore.  I've been tempted to close my account many times, but haven't quite been able to do that yet - FOMO I think - but I have managed to be quite restrained in the last few months at minimising my use.  If anything, every time I scroll I get a reminder of how bad it is for my psychological wellbeing -  actually for everyone's wellbeing. It doesn't make us better as a society - in fact I think it's made us much much worse.

More on this to come.

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