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Finding Your Peace in a Connected World…
Tailoring my online experience is important to me, now more than ever. As an artist for hire, my skills are a product I must advertise to thrive. What better place to advertise than social media? It is a necessity to many, but I found myself needing an escape from the noise. Burnout and exhaustion are no longer things I can ignore.
Human beings aren’t meant process a constant feed of information, as we so often tend to do with the ease and accessibility of social media. And this accessibility, especially to resources, can be a great thing! Finding my balance in an increasingly connected world has been less about rejecting the web, and more about decentralizing my engagement and discovering tools that remove unwanted distractions. A few noteable extensions for Firefox include:
Unhook, allowing you to disable suggested videos, hide the comments section on Youtube, and more.
Newsfeed Eradicator to disable feeds on most social media and replace them with uplifting quotes (if that’s to your liking) and allows you to set time limits for feed blocking.
There are also aesthetic and quality of life extensions such as Old Twitter, replicating the classic Twitter layout and allowing you to disable personalized trends.
You can browse more of my extension and software recommendations here!
Whatever your stance on social media, web 2.0 and the emergence of 3.0, we must come to accept change. Instead of adopting a pessimistic view towards these things, I’m continuing to embrace the web for what it always will be- an ever evolving mosaic of global creativity, the world’s biggest library, a boundless treasure trove of abandonware and lost media to rediscover, and a canvas for self expression.
-Tud
Words of Comfort
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
–Matthew 6:25-26, 34