It's reductionist, but Christian Twitter sucks. I'm not on Twitter anymore, but I've lost a LOT of respect for friends, and even prominent thinkers, in the way they handle themselves on there. As I said to someone else the other day, "You don't need to dunk in order to score. Sometimes a layup is good enough." But between the subtweeting, the QRTing, the snarkiness, the judgmentalism... Especially when you get into "Weird Christian Twitter," it's, I'll be honest, disgusting, and I think runs the risk of turning people away from the faith just like fundamentalism has.
I, sadly, agree with you 100%. It's become hard enough to watch that I've created an entire separate Twitter account to engage content totally unrelated to "Christian Twitter."
I saw you mention that, and to be honest, I considered doing something similar, but... I just can't stand how social media changes us in general. I've written about it a bit on my own substack (tokutheologian.substack.com), but after reading Alan Jacobs, Sherry Turkle and other thinkers, it's just not something I can invest my time into at all anymore.
It's reductionist, but Christian Twitter sucks. I'm not on Twitter anymore, but I've lost a LOT of respect for friends, and even prominent thinkers, in the way they handle themselves on there. As I said to someone else the other day, "You don't need to dunk in order to score. Sometimes a layup is good enough." But between the subtweeting, the QRTing, the snarkiness, the judgmentalism... Especially when you get into "Weird Christian Twitter," it's, I'll be honest, disgusting, and I think runs the risk of turning people away from the faith just like fundamentalism has.
I, sadly, agree with you 100%. It's become hard enough to watch that I've created an entire separate Twitter account to engage content totally unrelated to "Christian Twitter."
I saw you mention that, and to be honest, I considered doing something similar, but... I just can't stand how social media changes us in general. I've written about it a bit on my own substack (tokutheologian.substack.com), but after reading Alan Jacobs, Sherry Turkle and other thinkers, it's just not something I can invest my time into at all anymore.
Yup. I totally get it.