Tired of social media

I was one of those people that joined Facebook back in 2005 when it was still just for college students. I've been a fairly heavy user of social media off and on through those years and even somewhat of a proponent of social media. I've been on Twitter - more off than on, but there've been periods of heavy use. I have 18 badges on Foursquare. I try to keep my profile updated on LinkedIn, but am not too active.

I've been at the point though that I'm just tired of it... tired of looking at it and tired of updating my own profiles. Tired of trying to come up with a clever Facebook status and updating my location on Foursquare. Social media always seemed like it could be much more than what it is - less stupid pictures and more thought provoking discussion.

Enter Google+ - I joined as soon as I could and tried to be active, but it just wasn't working for me. But I recently gave it my best shot because that was supposed to be the social network of ideas and discussion... but what I've found is that it's the worst. It's just constant stupid photos, constant animated gifs, contstant nothing... it's extremely annoying.

I've reached a point in my life where I don't have time for everything and social media is taking a back seat, these days. I won't delete my profiles or anything like that... but, you won't find me very active on any of them in the future... unless something changes.