How do you use social media?

How do I use social media? To be honest I’m not sure if it’s not the other way around. Social media seems to use me more than I use it, I certainly think social media gets the better deal.

I use it to keep in touch with friends and to share ideas, in principle, but in reality I mostly use it to search endlessly for something to justify my anxiety. Something that reminds me that my existential dread is real and must contended with, lest I relax for a moment and find myself happily getting on with life.

The world turns, but I miss phone calls and meet ups and reading magazines and journals. It’s not 1995 anymore, which is a shame, I’d just about learned how to cope with the world by then, but they had to go and change it.