Happy Paceversary to Me!
Aug. 15th, 2022 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
root_tracer0963 First things first. Today is my third anniversary of being battery operated (read as having had a pacemaker implanted in me on August 15, 2019). So, Happy Paceversary to me!
In other news, I spent yesterday cleaning up my Twitter account. What do I mean by cleaning up? Basically, it's deleting every tweet I made on Twitter and clicking on unlike to every Tweet I had previously "liked." It turns out that deleting the tweets I made is far easier than clicking on every unlike. That's for a couple of reasons. First, I have far more likes than I did Tweets. Still, it turns out that I still had 964 tweets and initially had over 27,000 likes. To delete the the tweets, I used a third party app to get rid of them. To delete the likes, I found a YouTube video that showed how to go through Developer Tools and insert a code in my Twitter likes page to start unliking everything. Still, even with the code, it doesn't get all the likes at once. The code seems to crap out after about 200 or so unlikes. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of the code or of Twitter (maybe Twitter stops the unliking after so many because it read the multiple unlikes as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack). Sometimes, if the unlikes get down to a reasonable enough number, I might start to unlike some tweets by hand. For example, if the liked tweets remaining are around say 25.4K, I would then continue the unliking process untill only 25K even were remaining. There's just something getting down to a round number that gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Anyway, I was sort of inspired to undertake this unliking task by a Facebook friend of mine. He recently made a post where he said he was stepping away from Facebook for a while because he doesn't want to reinforce within himself the tendency to react to every post - something the Facebook algorithm is excellent at reinforcing. I feel the same way about Twitter. In fact, I think Twitter is more sinister at reinforcing the reaction mechanism than even Facebook. Of course Twitter is very much designed to work that way. By trying to now unlike every tweet I ever liked, I'm trying to take that a step further. I hope to get to a point where my Twitter page says you have zero Tweets and zero likes. At some point I will pull away from Twitter and not get on it so much. I have already unfollowed and deleted a lot of followers on it. Even with Facebook, I have a goal, that by the new year, I will start to pull away from that too.
In other news, I spent yesterday cleaning up my Twitter account. What do I mean by cleaning up? Basically, it's deleting every tweet I made on Twitter and clicking on unlike to every Tweet I had previously "liked." It turns out that deleting the tweets I made is far easier than clicking on every unlike. That's for a couple of reasons. First, I have far more likes than I did Tweets. Still, it turns out that I still had 964 tweets and initially had over 27,000 likes. To delete the the tweets, I used a third party app to get rid of them. To delete the likes, I found a YouTube video that showed how to go through Developer Tools and insert a code in my Twitter likes page to start unliking everything. Still, even with the code, it doesn't get all the likes at once. The code seems to crap out after about 200 or so unlikes. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of the code or of Twitter (maybe Twitter stops the unliking after so many because it read the multiple unlikes as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack). Sometimes, if the unlikes get down to a reasonable enough number, I might start to unlike some tweets by hand. For example, if the liked tweets remaining are around say 25.4K, I would then continue the unliking process untill only 25K even were remaining. There's just something getting down to a round number that gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Anyway, I was sort of inspired to undertake this unliking task by a Facebook friend of mine. He recently made a post where he said he was stepping away from Facebook for a while because he doesn't want to reinforce within himself the tendency to react to every post - something the Facebook algorithm is excellent at reinforcing. I feel the same way about Twitter. In fact, I think Twitter is more sinister at reinforcing the reaction mechanism than even Facebook. Of course Twitter is very much designed to work that way. By trying to now unlike every tweet I ever liked, I'm trying to take that a step further. I hope to get to a point where my Twitter page says you have zero Tweets and zero likes. At some point I will pull away from Twitter and not get on it so much. I have already unfollowed and deleted a lot of followers on it. Even with Facebook, I have a goal, that by the new year, I will start to pull away from that too.
