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This is What Happened When I Stayed Off Twitter For Two Days

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readAug 14, 2019

This climate of extremes is an ongoing theme that affects my writing and definitely dictates how we engage on the platforms that were built with the promise that we will be outlived by destructive tactics, keeping us socially combative, for better or worse.

Facebook is no longer my reality, and so that leaves Twitter and Instagram.

Technically I’m still annoyingly connected to Facebook through its acquisition of Instagram, and it’s only recently that I’ve begun to recognize the traits that inspired my disengagement from the platform that’s masterminded by the traitorous premise that everything and everyone is for sell to the highest bidder.

That includes data entries, that we nonchalantly deposit in response to quizzes that are slyly set up for our failure by those who traffic usernames and passwords in exchange for the combustion of democracies.

You would have to be a metallic humanoid if you’ve never contemplated what it would be like to permanently abandon the glorified connectors that were once deemed as the long-awaited salvation of the modern era, with capabilities that gratifyingly defied our highest expectations.

We’ve been enduring the unevenness of online socializing for a little over a decade, and there’s no doubt that if you…

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