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The key is you get to decide what you’re consuming. You also get to decide what you are posting — which perhaps is the biggest responsibility of all.

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“I’m always here silently judging all of your dietary choices.”

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When you put your focus on your phone instead of people, you’re being rude.

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You don’t automatically become more enlightened than everyone else after deleting all of your social media accounts and vowing never to use them again.

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Instead of doing a bunch of low-quality digital socializing, I’m spending more time in-person with fewer people.

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We feed ourselves the narrative that people won’t stay. And don’t get me wrong—plenty won’t. But there are some who will. And are you going to allow those people to slip by you because you’ve conditioned yourself to believe it isn’t possible?

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Oh, and reality check: it’s actually work.

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It seems with news there is always a negative judgment whether it be labeled corrupt, falsified, exaggerated, or bias. But, when it’s pushed on social media, the biggest problem is that it’s out of place.

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It’s time to encourage and bring one another up and there is no tolerance for anything less.

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I think a lot about deleting social media. It’s a fantasy of mine — I imagine the thrill of watching a decade of posts disappear, permanently deleted, and with it all of the nerves pitted in my stomach like rocks.