Social Networks
My social networks are diverging. Thanks to some tweaking a few months ago, I now am able to mentally separate these networks and prevent overlapping content (for the most part).
Facebook is the place for garbage. Some photos, but many are just uploaded Snapchats. I follow low-brow sources. Actually, I take that back — most of Facebook is either a) people tagging each other in memes, or b) people pressing the “interested” button and someone else liking it or commenting on it.
Twitter is my higher-quality content feed. I follow people in industry, news organizations, and thought leaders. Often, Twitter links to Medium posts, where there’s also a wealth of great content. I can’t live without Twitter anymore.
Instagram is my escape from reality. Every photo is edited to make the moment look as beautiful as possible. It doesn’t help that I follow a lot of professional photographers. Provoking architecture, genetically-superior people, incredible landscapes, and expensive cars fill my feed.
Snapchat is my “things happening in real life, now” platform. I check it constantly and send at least two snaps a day (I’m trying to cut back). I typically watch every story on the platform.
Everything else comes to me via RSS in Feedly. This isn’t really a social network, but it’s where a majority of my content comes from. These feeds catch all of the articles from Techcrunch, Verge, Lifehacker, Wired, Autoblog, Jalopnik, and a few other sources. It’s a ritual for me to quickly j-key through them.
