Expanding Bubbles

About a year and a half ago, I grew tired of the self-selected echo-chamber bubble I lived in. Social media bored and annoyed me because it would continually show me things just like things I had already seen.

How do you learn anything by looking at the same things over and over again? It is a crazy feedback loop that turns you inward and isolates you. Chasing likes in the digital world is just like chasing friends in the real world, except faster.

The echo chambers of the internet aren’t helping connect people.

I can’t say that I’ve popped my own bubble, but I have certainly expanded it within the past year. I stepped away from Facebook. I shuffled what podcasts I listen to. I try to have focused time away from social media.

I brought more positivity into my life.

This is a journey, though, and it’s not over. I still need to build habits of being present more. Truly being in the moment with the people around me.

It's a work in progress.