Falling Out of Love with Twitter. I used to write more, before I got addicted to technology. I was going through my old journals from elementary school, pre-cell phone, and saw that I wrote so many short stories and poems. The excuse I tell myself is that I don’t have time, but that isn’t true. I do have time, but I am wasting it reading tweets and looking at Willow Smith’s Instagram. The amount of time that I spend on my phone scares me. I read into technology too much and it makes me sad. I put so much pressure on myself to make sure my writing is good (whatever that means) that I stopped. Why do I tweet? I hate Twitter because it consumes me and I never stop thinking about it.
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