Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

DETOX . . . At The Millions, Edan Lepucki describes her four-month absence from Twitter and Facebook. Here's how it's going now--

It?s now past April 1st, and I haven?t ended the detox.  The truth is, I don?t miss the two sites much.   These days, I feel no pull whatsoever toward Twitter, despite the number of fabulous people there.  In my mind, it?s a crowded elevator where everyone?s talking over one another.  They?re all saying interesting things, but who can keep track?  Part of me is afraid to return to Facebook. Will it exert the power over me that it used to?  I want to return, and I want to show restraint.  And if I can?t, I will have to detach once again.

Read the full post, with all its harrowing details: "Ceasing to Exist: Three Months in the Social Media Detox Ward."

Meanwhile, like Lepucki pre-detox, I'm also spending way too much time at a social network, the one described last year in my post, "Is TheBarAfterWork a Valuable Networking Tool or Just for the Drunks?"

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).