Algorithm versus Your Rhythm

I am only a facebooker. Adding more seems overwhelming. Facebook seems overwhelming enough. And how sensitive is that algorithm eh!? I just need to hover longer over something or extend just to read the end of a sentence and then my feed is swamped with that subject.

Decision for the new year is that it is definitely NOT a place to pick up news.

I tend to look at it more like a magazine. I love art posts and I don’t mind the multitude of further posts I get if I explore a post I like the look of more deeply. I spend the other day liking and loving some of those just to clear my algorithm of distressing news. I don’t mind the lovely emails I get if I subscribe to a set of journal prompts someone is offering for free.

There is such a lot of generosity in that art community. Lots of sharing and offering. Yes, I know they want me to buy something and I occasionally have. Some of them have been really good, some I regret. It does help me explore what I do and don’t like. And that is really valuable.

I was having a chat with a client about how powerful the internet is. There are many amazing things it offers in terms of interest and communities of interest.

But as in life, awareness is all. Becoming more alert to how you are interacting with the world is a process that seems amplified and speeded up by the internet. Before you know it you are swamped in a world you probably didn’t intend to be or don’t enjoy. (I’m not sure being angry all the time is enjoyable!)

Therapy can help you decipher where you are putting your attention and what habits you are being pulled in to. Maybe your friends, maybe your parental influence, maybe workplace politics. Keeping hold of your OWN rhythms and needs can be really useful if you can get a handle on it. In the age of a powerful internet, we need that muscle even more.

If you’d like to explore where your attention is being pushed, pulled and flooded, please be in touch. If that attention is going online then it can have a big impact on the real tine, real life relationships you are having.

It’s worth keeping hold of your own rhythm so you can be here and now with the people you love.

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