Rant On: Twitter

“It has been more than a month since I scrolled my twitter timeline (41 days to be exact). I did that because at first I think that Twitter distracts me so much from my studies (there are other reasons too). But it turns out I still procrastinate even without Twitter smh.
Throughout this period, I became more and more isolated from people, which I’m unsure if it is a good or a bad thing. Often times where I like to be alone, but at the same time I don’t want to be lonely. You want people to be around you but you don’t want them to disturb you.”

That was the line I write before 2017. Now that we are in 2017, I started browsing twitter again and I found out I have some love-hate relationship with it. The ‘love’ part is I can get engaged with my friends, know what they are doing, as well as getting breaking news. That news part eventually become the ‘hate’ part. Earlier, Faiz Subri has awarded FIFA Puskas Award and netizens bashing him for the poor English speech. Much of the negativity of these people leaked into the timeline as a result of my followings retweeted such stuff, making my timeline very ‘dirty’. I do want to keep track of my friends, but I do not want negative vibes from becoming my feed every day.

So, what is the solution? For now, the only one is to turn of retweets from my followings. But doing that will refrain me from getting breaking news.  Also, I’m not doing that for hundreds of my followings.

Maybe I should not waste my time and do something more beneficial.