---------------------------------------- Twitter October 14th, 2017 ---------------------------------------- I deleted my Twitter account this week. It's been a decision I've been building up to for a while now. There's so many things that make me furious on there. Pretty much everything to do with American politics, the abuses of people of color and the LGBT community, women, Nazi bullshit, it just keeps going. The few moments of hilarity when a brand will respond to a person with a witty remark just don't balance the scales. I met my wife on Twitter, via my best friend. I have^H^Hd a large community to draw on and engage with. I kept in touch with some people only via that medium. But, having left Facebook almost 10 years ago, I realize that there's no real regrets in shedding a social network. The people who reach out to me in another way are the ones worthy of keeping in touch. The community I leave behind in one space will be matched by a new community elsewhere. Twitter is a cesspool of hate, of anger. It cannot police its own systems. It does not deserve to have my attention.