Ditching Social Media — Unplugging From the Algorithm

My name is Colin and it’s been over 2100 days since my last tweet, Facebook post, comment on a news story, or any social media posting and Goddammit, it feels good!

I’m an old millennial, well, aging millennial at thirty-one years of age. I remember when Facebook started and was still a networking tool for universities in the United States. I think the age to sign up was eighteen or maybe sixteen and I would’ve been fourteen or so at the time. So I created an email address, lied about my age to Mark Zuckerberg and joined Facebook. One of…