Social Media Relapse

Oh well, like any addict, I had a relapse.  I went on Gab and posted about 20 items when I should have been doing something else.  I got enough sleep, my mind was spinning, and things were popping that I wanted to shout out to the void.  I also wrote some facebook and blog post, one of which (the post below this one on this blog) I'm kinda proud of.

Twitter, I've been off of Twitter for a month, and seeing the amount of voices from the right censored on Twitter I think it was the right call (that and wasting so much time) to be off of Twitter.  I probably should be off Gab too but I'm keeping it to about 1 or 2 days a week there.  We shall see.

Anyway, I enjoyed my binge even though it ultimately is wasted time.  I got to exercise my brain muscles a little bit in a non-code monkey way which I enjoyed.  But...the recovery must continue so the dams must go up during work time again.  Back to i.

Seven Steps to Become a Digital Warrior for the Good Side

Remember, when supporting the good guys...

1) Only report the failures of the bad guys. Never self reflect on your own side's problems.

2) You are siding with the side of truth and justice, so if your side does things that are a little sketch, it is totally justified by the end result that they and you are pursing.

3) Don't let the other side's voice confuse the gullible. Make sure their voices, the voices of untruth, get silenced or demonized properly

4) If debating the evil side gets rough, just remind them of how vile they are and how any argument that stems from such vileness surely is wrong just from the get go and doesn't need to be dwelt upon or thought about.

5) Don't let the other side decide what facts are. That is best left to armies of lawyers, debunkers, scientist, and experts that are of course all on your side. In fact any information that comes from sources not approved by the above, hold as suspect and quarantine immediately.

6) Remember to offer ideological support to your side whenever possible to constantly encourage them to remain strong. Share articles, repost stuff, and express opinions that benefit your side regardless of the platform. Family members and friends should always be priority one for sharing.

7) Make allusions to authors like Orwell, Huxley, Berneys and aptly apply them to the other side. Taking the time to actually read what these authors had to say in context and in depth isn't actually necessary to lift a few sentences here or there and apply them to the evil side.

These seven points will lead you to become a great internet digital warrior for the good side. Be sure to share this far and wide. But don't share who the author is, because he might be on the bad side.

Someone is Wrong on the Internet Today...and I'm Going To Let Them Stay Wrong

Here we are, and brand new spanken year.  I've been "off" twitter (as defined as no longer posting links, I will still have an account and check DMs for at least awhile) for about a week.  Unfortunately Gab is filling the gap, which I don't want.  So I'm going to limit posting on Gab.

Anyway, I saw some people that were wrong on the internet this morning.  And it took a lot...but I let them stay wrong.  Why?

Time.  If I corrected every wrong on the internet, I would starve to death as it would take up 100% of my time and I wouldn't even put a dent in the wrongness.  My time is valuable.  It is one of the few commodities that I can invest and get a good return on.  Correcting wrongness for the below reasons is not usually a good investment.

Effect:  When I do correct wrongs, unfortunately we live in an age where alternative fact streams exist.  Oh they aren't really facts, or more precisely really truths (you can quote facts out of context with details left off or over emphasized in such a way that what you've quoted no longer correlates to truth).  When I correct people that are wrong, often they just dip into an alternative fact stream that "shows" that they are really right and I am wrong.  Sometimes others are blatantly wrong, and their alternative "fact" stream fails them, they will just pivot to another topic that shows they are really on a grander scale "right" and I am still "wrong" even though I was correct.  It is maddening.  It is trying to nail down water to a board.  If people don't want truth, they won't accept truth.  The exception to the rule is dealing people that are really open...really wanting to find out what the truth is rather than having their preconceived notions validated.  And these people are few and far between.  And a word of caution, it is easy to be one of these people with an alternative fact stream and not wanting to seek truth but validation if you don't guard your own mind.  Beware.

Peer Group: This is becoming a bigger one to me.  Do I want to debate calculus with a first grader?  It is often the same with debating people on the internet.  The problem with politics is everyone can have an opinion and advocate for that opinion (which I have no desire to change), but in debating things that actually have a context, and that context takes years to understand, do I want to engage with someone just entering the arena and spouting their "expertise".  I do if I want to waste a lot of time and go nowhere. 

Relatives:  Oh the ultimate peer group :)  I used to debate them, and they just get mad at you.  So now depending on the social media platform I just mute them.  I keep in contact with relatives because they are my relatives and I love them.  I can't name a one I keep in contact with that I consider a subject matter expert on the world.  The same for social media friends (with some exceptions here).  I have a connection to them, but again 90% of that time that connection again isn't because they display some vast knowledge of a subject I'm interested in (again here there are a few exceptions), but because of some sort of paths crossing either currently or in the past that make me want to stay connected or enhance a connection through social media.  Yet some of these people are really political, and when I see them wrongspeak, especially when it is regurgitation of psyops conducted by the powers that be that wish to control them and me, it bugs me.  But, I'm not going to get bogged down in the trenches this year. 

Motive: It is easy to view politics or history as a fighting arena that is contested and must be won.  This is the ultimate waste of time.  And this is the problem of our age.  Everyone is a warrior so to speak, but we are all really bad at picking the right battles to fight and the battles to avoid.  Infocombat is everywhere, but I grow more and more aware that people, regardless of politics, are valuable to my God.  He loves them, died for them, wants to get them to come to Him, get saved, and then get healed and walk as His children.  Are my activities inline with that?  Is my battle for information hegemony inline with that great mission?  Or does it drive people away.  It is so easy to be right on some things yet overall wrong.  I need to focus on things that really and truly matter...and for me that is reflecting Jesus's love for everyone, and not engaging in things like political battles that distract from that.  Is their a place for political discourse with people?  Absolutely, but only in the context of an open mind on both our ends.  Else, better to shut up.

Productivity: And lastly, information and politics is a vast maw that will devour your time if you let it.  So don't.  For me, I've got a side business I'm trying to kick off and I'm trying to provide my full time employer the best bang for the buck I can.  Social media sucks away from both. 

So, this morning, I can't say I hit the ground running as hard on the productivity scale as I wanted (heck I wasted about 20 minutes writing this).  But I will give myself a pat on the back for seeing people "wrong" on the internet and making the deliberate choice to not answer them.  Like egregiously wrong and easy to correct.  I walked away instead and put my thoughts here. 

It is a start to productivity.  Let's see if I can keep it up.

My Cyclic Life

So, like a teenager writing in my little diary, I've posted about the ills of social media and why I'm pulling back.  As I've reached out to people before I bail Twitter I've seen a few people post stuff like, "Good luck but I'm going to stay and fight for my family and country."  There are a few implications raised here I'd like to address.

1. How much conviction is enough?  How much information do you really need to convince you that the democrats are a bunch of elitist masquerading as socialist so they can fulfill the agendas of the dark money that supports them while they pilfer the public coffers?  How much info do you need to convince you that the GOP is largely controlled opposition (not all but most).  I'm pretty sure you can spend a day on Twitter and pick that up.
2. How much knowledge do you need about MKUltra, The New World Order, Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, The Club of Rome, etc...  I agree that the never ending flow of information is addicting, but once you get how things work, how much more info do you need to really know?
3. Is Twitter really "fighting"?  Some would argue it is the opposite.  A virtual pacifier to those that are angry. Twitter did help spread the fire that was already ignited really back in the Ross Perot days...maybe even before.  It helped.  But does it still?
4. Is Twitter the only way to fight?  Because someone is leaving Twitter does that mean they have stopped fighting by default?
5. Playing on the above four points, if you use Twitter to fight, is fighting really regurgitating information to people who already think like you really fighting?  Are you engaging, listening to, people who are in the dark?  Or are you just trolling with no real hope of connecting.
6. Are you fighting the right war?  As a born again Christian I need to be MOST concerned about pointing people to Jesus.  I've found personally that all the political stuff on social media does not always do that...and I find it being more of a distraction to the real fight.  Is a spiritually dead person even capable of seeing how much in the dark they are?  It has nothing really to do with intellect, as the heart directs the intellect.  If the heart is dead, the intellect will be dead as well.  Why waste time on people who are literally dead spiritually trying to enlighten them when you see that there isn't a spark of life there.  Better to focus on the areas where Jesus might cause some sparks to fire.  Those areas often aren't found in political troll wars.
7. As a personal flaw, it irritates me a tiny bit, not a lot (I wish it was zero) but a tiny bit, when people say they will still "keep fighting" kind of saying like I am not.  I've been on the wall so to speak for 11 plus years often for hours a day fighting the infowar.  Please don't talk down to me if you have only 4000 tweets much of them RTs and not original thought.  Just a minor irk that if I was a better person wouldn't annoy me at all, but it does.

Just things to ponder.  Twitter is still useful but less so.  I worry many people think they are doing more than they really are by being info warriors on it.  I'm not saying stop, I'm not saying you don't have an impact, I'm just saying the impact might be smaller than you think, and there are other ways you can have an impact in tandem or instead of Twitter.

With all that said, I've found my research into the esoteric and political corruption goes in cycles.  Probably when I was around 18 and has some minor experiences with the occult on up to five years after college I was a dedicated conspiracy theorist.  Buying books, cruising alt.conspiracy, meeting the few like minded people out there that I could.  But when I got a corporate IT job, I knew that I needed to focus on my career and push other things aside.  Not totally aside, I still researched, but it wasn't front and center.  Around mid 2000's my career was pretty much established, so again I put researching dark things front and center.  Twitter became a useful tool for sharing that info.  But now once again I find myself where other things need to be put front and center.  I shared a lot about that in the previous post to this so I won't rehash it here.  But I'm not stopping voting.  I might even participate in local elections and volunteer.  I'm not stopping researching, if anything I will go deeper.  I'm just rotating off the line for awhile so I can take care of other things.  If I live long enough, I wouldn't be surprised if I rotate back in on some future date.

Is This The End?

So...I've ranted about social media before.  Here comes another rant, but with a quieter tone.  Pull up an e-chair and listen to my tale of using Twitter for 11.5 years around the warm fire of me burning my Twitter presence down.  I think I've defollowed about 9000 people over the past two years.  I think I'm about just above 500 now.  My goal is to be down to 300 by the end of the year, and then going inactive.  I still might pop unto Twitter here and there, when things break, but Twitter as a platform for communication and research for me will be depreciated January 1st, 2020.

A little history.  I don't remember how I found Twitter, but I joined in July of 2008.  I really enjoyed about the first four or five years on Twitter.  I engaged a lot of bright people that without social media I never would have been able to send messages to.  I learned a lot.  And for me, as a Christian political science major who believes in conspiracy theories, I had a lot of information to share that I thought people needed to hear.  I was not alone, thousands upon thousands of conservative Christians like myself joined the platform and spread information far and wide that the controlled media would not.  I think Twitter laid the ground work, or at least played a huge role in getting the Tea Party movement going, also the Occupy Wall Street movement as well, and later in getting Donald Trump elected.  Also Twitter helped promote many how shall we say, non-mainstream viewpoints to America and the world at large.  What was once the domain of alt.conspiracy and secretive modem based bill boards is now somewhat mainstream.

Well, the powers that be didn't and don't like that.  So they are hell bound to change Twitter into something that controls movements like above.  Twitter and other mainly Northern California based social media platforms have seemingly all come together and started laying the ground work for controlling political discourse on their platforms.  I started noticing sometime in 2016 that even though I had more followers then ever my tweets were getting less and less impressions, less retweets, and worse my account got flagged!

At one point I toyed with running adds.  I had an indie internet "radio" show on for a few years with a friend of mine.  Later I thought about making videos.  I thought maybe with a slight boost of promoting both would be the boost I needed to maybe get to the next level in social media.  So I ran a few ads.  First, a 10 dollar promotion.  It was amazing how much more impressions my tweet got.  Then I accidentally ran a 100 dollar promotion on a random tweet.  More on how that happened another time but I was pretty angry that it happened.  The short version was it was a butt dial promotion from my phone.  It was either that promotion or another 10 dollar promotion after that to a video that I made that got my account flagged as being ineligible to run adds.  I tried to fight it then and I was referred to was the terms of service agreement with no specific complaint.  A few years went by and I tried to get eligible again, just to see, and I think I could if I pushed for it, but by now my account is so nerfed that I decided to not pursue any kind of Twitter promotion as it is a waste of time.

Anyway, about 2013-2014 I had some what would later become some pretty big names follow me on Twitter.  Later about 2016 I noticed a lot of them defollowed me, as maybe my account was no longer "big enough" to warrant a follow.  That kind of urked me.  I also tried to grow my account but not crazily, adding maybe 20-50 follows a week.  This would get me over the 10,000 follower mark, and then everything came to a head.

I realized that I was in mostly a conservative echo chamber.  This didn't bother me at first but there are a lot of non-conservative people...libertarians, anti-NWO types from all political stripes, some specialized information types...I followed them but I never saw their tweets on my timeline any more.  Just more and more retweeted blue check retweets, the same ones over and over again.  I was kind of already ticked off at the nerfing, which would get worse each year 2016 on.  Now this seeing the same stuff over and over again.  So I decided maybe following more and more people was a bad idea, or at least the ones that were going to just share the same information I was already seeing over and over again.  So about 2016 I stopped the drive to get more and more followers every week.

Then some other things started to happen.  Let me phrase it like this.  Knowing government commits false flags: good.  Believing every event in history is a false flag or controlled event I would argue bad.  Believing in very powerful secret societies: good.  Tweeting lore about these societies and believing because you have an internet connection and read a few blogs that you are suddenly an expert in all things hidden: bad.  I, a conspiracy theorist/realist, found myself debunking more stuff than I cared to.  I went from RTing people with similar views as myself to challenging a bunch of well bull crap.  And it became kind of a losing battle.  It actually became pretty frustrating for me, and I'm convinced that "the NWO will overthrow the NWO to create the real NWO."  Sounds like a dumb saying but I'm kinda proud of it.  I also came up with the concept of conspiracy hipsters...people who get a little knowledge and run with it way farther than they should.  I believe these types will be used one day thinking they will be doing a lot of good by over turning the existing orders to bring in a utopia but in the end will be very disappointed.  This groups is growing and I got bored and frustrated fast dealing with them.

Then came "Q".  I knew from the get go that Q was a psyop.  Why?  I've been researching this stuff for 30 years.  I've seen the deep throat types used to manipulate the unwary.  I've also learned in life that almost always, though not always, if it looks to good to be true it usually is.  You can read about what I think of Q on other post on this blog, but essentially it was depressing to me, but not surprising, that so many people did and still do buy into the Q psyop.  There IS some good research and information being spread by the believers, but I'm pretty sure the over all mission of Q is to deceive.  I grew and grow tired of people buying into "trust the plan"that doesn't exist rather than being the plan that does.

Also there is the issue of my relationship with God.  I hate to say this but I'm not perfect.  I mean I'm not even close.  A lot of Christians readily agree that they aren't perfect, but in reality they kind of think they are.  They know they have sin, and know they need a savior, which is great, but I unfortunately went beyond that.  Without giving out too many details, I have been dealing with an issue for a long time.  Sometime around 2018 it really hit me that I had to deal with this issue.  It had to go away.  But I had been fighting this issue for so long without success it really spun me into a lot of confusion about my faith.  Ultimately I determined I could not fight this issue.  It owned me.  And the only way for any kind of relief was to beg Jesus every day to admit that I was to weak to fix myself and that I needed Jesus to fix me.  If He didn't it wouldn't get fixed.  Praise God that He honored that request.  I still have the ability to fall if I try real hard, but Christ has changed me from the inside so I'm different and having victory over this issue.  I bring this up because through this all I realized my walk as a Christian had really deteriorated.  I knew I wasn't praying, reading and really studying the Bible, or hanging out with Christians like I needed to be, but I didn't realize how far I had strayed.  I really needed to focus on Jesus.  Some health problems kicked in too that reminded me I am very mortal and sooner than I think I will give an account of my life to Jesus.  Was I happy with my current ledger?  Not at all.  So I determined to spend more time with Jesus and to put Him first.  This would require time.  And being on Twitter all the time was the easiest thing I could cut back on to gain some time, one of the few things actually.

I also realized that I am a horrible worker.  I didn't used to be.  But at my day job I've deteriorated into a bored under challenged person who goofs off way to much.  The guys I work for are very gentile, nice men who I'm sure are well aware of my condition but for now haven't dealt with it.  But in the past I've seen them deal with people who are no longer a fit for the company, and I know that if I don't change I will be shown the door at one point, which is really kind of  crappy for me to do to them.  They like me, and it would suck if I kind of forced them to fire me, which my wife thinks that I'm doing without consciously knowing it.  My company stuck by me when I brought home a special needs child from overseas to be our son, that took a lot of time and they let me get away with not being as productive as I should.  I also battled pretty severe health problems for the last two summers, and was a wreck for weeks at a time.  They let my lack of productivity slide there too.  But this won't go on forever.

I spend way too much work time on Twitter.  I've tried to cut back but when I get bored or am in between needing to get stuff immediately out the door for work I'm on Twitter.  In the coming year I have to make a big choice.  I have to decide if I want to stay with my company, and if I do really work hard and do the extra mile and earn my keep and payback some of the investment they have made in me, or if I need to accept that I'm just burnt out at my job and I'm just not going to do that.  If I'm not, I owe it to them and myself to bow out, and do it on the best note that I can.  With that in mind, in my spare time I really need to be growing my skills.  I have a dream of starting an indie game studio and cranking out games, and I've already started on my first one.  My immediate goal is to keep my job but work on projects I enjoy at night even though time is at a premium.  One more reason for Twitter the biggest time suck in my life should probably go.

Another reason (I added this section in later) is that I was hoping in the beginning that this Twitter thing could parlay into something more.  At first my information tended to be unique and hard to find, though towards the later years a lot of stuff I was sharing started to be just adding to the noise/repetition.  One of the reasons I dialed back much of what I tweet.  I was followed by some big names, I received a lot of flattering comments, I knew I had good info.  But I stalled at one point.  My sister always said I had great information but I needed to tone down the Christian angle.  My response was always, but that is why I am there.  It all relates to and points to the soon return of Jesus and the depravity of man.  That is what I tweet about if someone who follows my tweets really gets me.  But maybe she was right.  I tweet military stuff, but a lot of military experts want to hear military stuff without the occasional plug or tie in to how it relates back to Jesus.  The same with geopolitics and foreign affairs.  Side note when there were a bunch of "rate yourself on Twitter" type services I was number one in geopolitics for awhile.  I was top 10 in a few other areas, at least according to one site.  Anyway, my videos, podcast, and rantings like this one are all not super polished.  These two things maybe kept me from going further than some of the people who I considered peers that are now big time.  I probably just didn't "have it" too to hit mass appeal.  I was fine with this, but when the Twitter nerfing really kicked in, and my tweets were just going off into cyberspace without anyone seeing them, I knew I was putting a lot of time and effort into something that was giving back diminishing returns.

Lastly, and perhaps the biggest reason for me to bow out of Twitter, well not the best reason (spending more time with Jesus is the best reason), but I guess the second most important reason is my family.  My wife and I are more like room mates at this point.  Both busy, we work on different schedules, we spend more time texting then we do being together.  Also my son is special needs, and although the day care center and the school are making amazing process with him, he could use more care to promote his progress from Mom and Dad.  The first year he got some, but because the schools are doing a good job with him we have become complacent.  I need to invest more time mentoring my son.  And again this takes time, and one of the few things I can cut to retrieve back some time is researching and Twitter.

Wow, this is getting to be a long post.  If you actually read this far, thanks.  The point of all this is, Twitter and researching is a huge time suck, other things are requiring time, plus staying on Twitter is less and less valuable as Twitter's owners tweak the algorithms against people like me.  All of this leads me to a conclusion, it is time to go.  There are also other reasons, but these I've made peace with, like each tweet leaves a trail of how you think and who you are that might one day be VERY detrimental to surviving in the coming global society, if you can call it that.  I made peace that if I took the stances online that I have that there would be blow back.  So far there actually has been some...but minor.  When I argued for the cancelling of building a mosque where the twin towers stood I got some weird things happen to me, like out of the blue a woman asking me to do web work for them and when I looked at her facebook account it was all indonesian military people...and of course her account vanished soon.  I think that was an attempt by islamics to get mor einfo on me. I started getting calls from Chinese numbers at night, maybe in part to a big stance against Chinese global activities and trade on Twitter.  I had a discussion with someone who wasn't adversarial but they worked for the man...and then their account disappeared. And a few times people have accused me of doing heinous things that or course I didn't do.  One person shared personal information about me...but that was minor as it is pretty easy to find and I expected it to be found.  I knew I didn't fully cover my tracks and if I wanted to I'd have to start my social media presence all over, which I was too lazy to do.  This is actually a really good reason in the coming years to have a very apolitical presence on social media.  But it is a reason I won't accept.  I also won't accept the Nor Cal social media platforms gaming their algorithms to control political discourse.  No. I hope they crash and burn if they continue to do so which is a shame because many of these platforms are amazing.  Amazing but not if they are choosing a side and becoming active combatants in the culture war.

So, to wrap this up, I first stopped the gain as many followers as you can game.  Then I started to defollow a few people that seemed to retweet repeated content.  Life events have come up that demand my time.  Twitter is the easiest thing now to cut back on or cut off to free up that precious needed time.  Twitter is now something that is not as useful to me to pursue information sharing and research as it once was.  So twitter has to go.  It has taken me about two years to finally pull the plug, and I still haven't officially done it.  I'm on gab at Gab.com/infocyde.  Parler @ infocyde as well though I don't use it.  I might post more blogs, and if I can find a viable alternative to youtube I might make videos again.

For those who "knew" me as a fellow veteran in the meme and link slinging wars, I salute you.  It has been a pleasure serving along side you.  To the few, the precious few, who actually were affected by the information I've been sharing, God bless you, my efforts here were not in vain.  To the people I learned from and who have encouraged me over the years, you know who you are, I hope we can stay in touch.

Social Media, Rope to Hang, Time to Burn

I've always suspected that social media (free blogs too) is just giving people a space to show their inner selves that could one day be used against them.  I see the vector America and the world is on, though briefly interrupted by my favorite disrupter, Trump (haters going to hate) and I see being on social media expressing political opinions that do not jive with the emerging progressive semi-official global ideology as potentially dangerous.  Let me list a few of the items that I think posting about might come back to haunt you...

• Expressing support for marriage as being exclusively between one man and one woman.
• Doubting the official narrative of global warming as being settled science.
• Posting against sexual education of children.
• Expressing support for nationalistic ideas over globalism.

Oh these are just a few I'm sure there is more.  And we all know that once it is out there, heck even starting to type something and then changing your mind, on a lot of sites as you type things are captured.  All this stuff is stored.  I'm not sure how well it is sorted yet, but as artificial intelligence capabilities grow one day all this data can be parsed and a profile of each individual can be assembled, if it isn't already happening to some degree already.  Those profiles I actually believe already exist both in the national security world and the corporate world.  But for now most of us live in countries that still pay at least homage to the idea that citizens still have at least some sort of freedom to express themselves. 

There is the whole other topic here of nerfing, throttling, sock puppets, tread milling, shadow banning, and all the various games social media companies that are mostly run by young leftist leaning people now are doing to keep mainly conservative ideas squashed.  But I'm leaving that for now except for what I call tread milling.  Tread milling is when a person things they are posting to a large following on the various social media platforms, but really most of their followers are "bots"...not the kind of bots that antagonize, but the type of bots that look like like minded people who share similar views who like and repost your content.  Real followers are slowly stripped away, and they are replaced by these type of bots.  And a person's post are algorithmically depreciated away so that real followers of a persons content don't see their post on timelines, but the bots cheerfully "see" them and give a person the dopamine boost of having information they shared be liked and reposted, even though in reality less and less people original poster wants the post to be seen by actually see them.  I think this is going on more than people think.  It keeps people engaged on social media platforms who have some sort of monetization scheme going on so they want to keep non-conformist there and posting, and the platforms can do so while essentially quarantining secretly people who do not conform to the new global ideology that just strangely enough almost the entire tech sector seem to subscribe to.  More on that possibly another time.

Why do I bring this up?  It is all about return on investment and risk analysis. I spend a lot of time on social media.  Why?  I like to be informed.  To be honest I don't get a lot of information from social media except for maybe two people that send me stuff.  Just cruising through my timelines at this point it is mostly people posting things I've already read or just things that I agree with that I don't necessarily need to see all the time.  Every day I learn a few things by browsing social media timelines, but very rarely is it information of high value to me.  I spend my time on social media pushing information.  But I think that is about to come to an end, at least on the platforms I'm currently using.  Why?

• That whole treadmill / back-filling thing I have a sense I'm a victim of.  Real people that I can reach are growing fewer and fewer because of it.
• shadow banning and algorithmic nerfing is taking it's toll on both information I see and who sees information I share.
• It is a natural progression on social media for people to gain and want to gain more followers.  Most people once they get beyond a certain point, even if they like your content and regardless of the games the programmers play behind the scenes to stop your content from being seen, simply won't see your content anymore because your content is competing with 1000's of other content providers your followers now follow.  Your content is literally infocided, burried in an ever growing see of information of which you become a smaller and smaller part.
• Addictive nature of social media.  Let's face it, most of us on there all that time are addicted, but by the ability to access information (hunting) and getting positive feedback for information we share.  We like making a difference, but it is getting harder and harder for our information to be seen.  Being addicted to something that has a diminishing value and potentially greater risk over time isn't a good thing.
• And the whole rope to hang thing.  I know my post are pretty innocuous, but I do post what I consider to be the truth on certain subjects that go directly against that progressive semi-official world view.  Future employers will and are looking at your social media accounts, and if they see things that are against the semi-official world view they might fear trouble in the work place as this semi-official world view is becoming more and more supported by various legal frameworks, that a few "wrong" post might cause an employer to pass.
• Researching is becoming less productive.  I like to research things, and that probably will not change.  But adjusting my research to go deep, not so much worried about flinging links, will for me perhaps give me better understanding of things that I want to understand.  To be honest, for my purposes, I've already solved in my mind how the world works.  There is a God, He loves us, but we are fallen beings.  That God sent Jesus, God in the form of a man, the Son of God, to live a perfectly sinful life and then offer himself as a sacrifice for our sins, blowing the door way for anyone from our fallen humanity that wants to get saved the ability to do so.  It isn't about our righteousness anymore, it is about Jesus's.  Good thing too as none of us are righteous enough to please a Holy God.  God loved us anyways.  He made a way.  But we have enemies, Satan and a host of fallen angels, and our own corrupt sinful nature.  Our enemies desires play out in our world, causing all sorts of problems.  Don't understand some of the weirdness that people do and how our politicians act?  It is all explainable to me anyway as the playing out of the conflict between God and goodness and Satan and our fallen flesh.  I get it.  I liked to share information that subtly lead people to this understanding and sometimes I am not so subtle about it.  After awhile constantly learning about what goes on behind the scenes is unproductive.  I get the patterns.  I no longer feel I need to know every detail.  A large part of my research was on the details, and that research now a days is better done by others.  
• Everyone seems to want to preach their ideology now, which is fine, I preach mine, but now if you don't see everything exactly the same it seems more and more people now label you as an enemy.  Sometimes I call out fellow Christians for posting about "leaders" that I think are really wolves.  That is almost always not-well received even though evidence to support my argument is easily found.  Sometimes I point out that not every group who is pushing information that seems good is on your team (Q I'm talking about you), that sometimes agendas are being played out that are very manipulate on people.  I think at times forces that appear good but are not have used me in their agendas.  I don't like that, and I don't like that people are closing their minds.  People might think 80% like you but you disagree with them on one point and instantly you go in the adversary box.  That gets old.
• It seems it is harder to make real connections.  In the early years of social media platforms I could connect with really interesting people that I normally could not connect with via other means.  That is still possible, but getting harder.  
• I travel.  Sometimes I travel near nations that I brazenly critique.  In the future that could lead me to having problems.
• Lastly, the big one for me, is time.  I'm a techie, and I have a great job.  But even though it is awesome, it is lacking something.  Something that makes me want a new job and new challenges.  Plus tech for me has always been about putting food on the table.  It is something that I have moments of enjoyment with, but those joyful moments are being more and more replaced by the mundane.  I don't know if it is my situation or if I'm approaching a stage in life where I need to do something different.  I need to figure that out and I need to do it quickly as the great job that I have will go away fairly soon, and while I'm there I need to be better for them.  I need to embrace more tech, learn it, master it, and decide where to go with it, if anywhere.  That is going to take time.  There aren't too many areas that I can suck time from now a days.  Social media and researching non-tech things is one huge pot of time that I can suck from.  So I'm going to have to do it.

As much as I hate the direction the leadership of many of the social media platforms have taken, I am thankful that for awhile they gave me a voice.  And that voice did have an effect.  So did yours. I'm grateful for the connections I made via social media.  I've enjoyed meeting people (in a virtual sense) that social media platforms enabled me to meet.  But since social media platforms are nerfing me, back-filling me, are presenting my data to those who do not have my best interest at heart, addicting me, I'm depreciating you.  You have made the time I spend on your platforms both less interesting to me and dangerous I have to depreciate you.  Twitter, you are the biggest offender.  Thus the end of the year I will no longer post regularly there.  I have about 2000 followers, and I want to witness Jesus to most of them before I go inactive.  I'd delete you completely from my life, and might still chose to do so in the future, but during breaking events I still might find you useful.  Thanks for the past, but not the future you have created on your platforms.  We've both changed, it isn't good bye but we aren't hang out friends anymore.

I do think sharing and gathering information is a thing I will always do, but just not on the big social media platforms as they exists now.  Exploring other options.

Twitter

I love Twitter, I hate Twitter. If you don't get it, well, don't feel lame. Twitter has it's uses, but those uses are not for everyone. As an information gathering tool, a networking tool (as in meeting people with similar interest), and a marketing tool (or a pushing info/viewpoint tool...I'll put that under "marketing) Twitter is an awesome tool that will only get better.

I've had a few people look at my number of followers and ask how I and why I have the numbers that I do. My numbers aren't that impressive, nor does anyone's really need to be use Twitter effectively. My numbers do look impressive to friends of mine that are just getting started with Twitter and wonder how to expand their following. I had so many questions about it I finally wrote something down for an indie gamer forum and then later posted that to associated content. The information might be of use to some, if so check it out.

A Simple Eight Point Strategy to Grow Your Twitter Following

Let me know if this helps, or successful strategies that you have had. And remember, numbers don't mean anything. My numbers are high because there is a lot of political turmoil in the U.S. right now, and I'm seeking out like minded people that I can gather information from and in turn push information that I stumble across that has political relevance too. There are a lot of fellow dissatisfied politicos out there, thus the high numbers. I think an indie gamers who is just on to meet fellow indie gamers would be doing fine by having a following of 10, if there is a lot of useful info being passed back and forth. Twitter is what you make of it, numbers by themselves are meaningless.