I joined Twitter a few years ago with the intent of just flirting with the experience. I was curious about its user experience and the range of content it offered. My biggest question was whether or not it could provide enough value that would make it sticky.

It did not.

Even in the browsing of circles directly related to my own discipline, career, or interests it fell short. What I did find was brute posturing, ignorance masquerading as expertise, toxic positivity, unlettered assertions, thought-terminating clichés, and — in the case of almighty tech — an exercise in mutual masturbation disguised as LFG tropes.

No thanks. I’ll stick with books and reticence.