Football Twitter
I wrote back in march that I quit social media usage on my phone, and I allow myself to check it only on my computer if needed, albeit rarely. But there has been one change to this since I last wrote. I have allowed myself indulge more than I wanted in football twitter.
I have been watching football for overall twenty years now and it is a very important and meaningful part of my life. Football twitter really adds so much to my experience of following football. The community, the commentary, the banter, analysis, rumours and news makes watching football more fun.
I missed this aspect of football a lot when I quit social media. If I ever used to log back in to social media, it was to check twitter for football stuff. I have slowly created this habit of using social media multiple times a day on my laptop just for football stuff. Also during matches, to live tweet, I have to login into twitter on my phone as well, but I make sure to log out after the match ends.
I just wanted to post an update on my social media usage, as I can clearly see that I have created this new pattern in my life where I use social media only on my laptop, only for football and sometimes on my phone to live tweet during matches. I don't hate or regret this part of my usage. I still check Instagram on my laptop, once every few days and that's about it for my usage of social media. I am still of the same opinion that my life is so much better without social media and short-form video on my phone and I continue to live this way.