Social networks today are a series of platforms on which to share and consume content. Often consume rather than share. The content, for the most part, is either created by your network or by a third-party in the form of an article for advertising purposes.

For the first part, as a content creator, I am useless. In general, I don’t feel like sharing most of my life or thoughts with a wider audience than my wife, relatives, and closest friends. In general I tend to consume as an avid learner.

I like privacy and I still enjoy feeling that everything that happens around me is everything that happens in the world. Even if it is not true. I can’t quite see how so many generations grew up and prospered in life with such limited knowledge of their environment and we, the people who live in the 21st century, even those who were born long ago, feel the need to always connect to that screen, to those news, to that feed, to the network.

I greatly enjoy the absence of that need in my life. I think it gives me a good amount of freedom, which I can consciously spend on other types of addictions hobbies, such as developing useless and unprofitable apps on my computer, or compulsively reorganizing the furniture in my home. I can even afford paying more attention than I should to my mobile phone, since I luckily have a job that I like.

While the world laughs at a meme, I enjoy my complete ignorance. I must say I preach this with pride. Don’t look for me on social media.