I deleted Facebook years ago, when it was still fairly easy to do so. I still have a Twitter account, but I only regularly follow three or four people, and get

I deleted Facebook years ago, when it was still fairly easy to do so. I still have a Twitter account, but I only regularly follow three or four people, and get their tweets via my Feedbin account. I also see new posts to BoingBoing and Metafilter via Feedbin, and log in here once or twice a day to browse. I check in on Reddit once every day or two, but the subreddits I follow are very carefully curated. I'm one of those who remembers the world before the Internet. I was about 30 and married when I got my first computer in the mid-1980s. I did a lot of reading back then, and some writing as well, though I didn't get serious about writing until I discovered word processing. I've been thinking about writing my own essay about tech minimalism, just because I've seen so many articles like this one over the past couple of years. In some ways it's something I aspire to, if only because I sometimes enjoy making things difficult, to test myself a little. But with a few exceptions, I like the digital life I've built. I'm happy to be able to get online every day. I've managed to mostly break the doomscrolling habit, to be able to close the laptop and put down the phone and read a book (on my Kindle, because I can make the type any size I want).