AMA: Do you miss Twitter / X?

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Hey brother, how have you been? Are you missing X at all, or has your time away from it just reinforced your decision to leave it behind for good?

For those who do not know, this questions comes in reference to my decision to leave my Twitter / X account behind a little over a month ago (read: Farewell to TwiXter: Prioritizing Faith, Family, and Community).

To answer the question briefly: yes, I greatly miss being on X. And if you’ve been following my blog posts at all, you may notice that I have not exactly kept up on posting regularly here either since vowing to do so.

The truth is, I currently have 8 drafts for blog posts that I’ve started and likely will never finish. There have been many topics I’ve wanted to discuss, ranging from the assurance of a believer’s eternal salvation to the lessons learned from the latest church news that has broken many Christians hearts as well as my own.

I admit that I struggle with the confidence that anything I write might have any value at all, as well as a continued fear that I am writing for my own glory rather than truly seeking the Lord’s. There have also been several developments in my personal life that have occupied my time and mental capacity, thus reducing my motivation to write long, well thought out blog posts (though an argument has been made by my wife that this is my blog and I can post as long or as short as I want – we’ll see).

As for leaving X? That decision has turned out to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I can confidently declare it was the right decision at the time. I have been much less discouraged by the Church due to what I have seen and experienced through my interactions there. On the other hand, however, I miss my friends. I miss being saturated in Scripture all day long as I checked in, posted, commented, and read what others wrote. I miss the encouragement that was possible when I needed comfort. There was much goodness to be found through that platform.

Over the past month or so, I have logged into my account a few times just to check in and see what I was missing. I never stayed for more than a couple of minutes at a time, though.

Sadly, each time I checked in has reinforced my decision to leave. Those brief glimpses of the online world I left behind have never left me feeling uplifted, encouraged, or edified; rather, I have seen much of what lead me to leave in the first place.

Perhaps that is simply due to poor timing, as I know that there are still wonderful discussions and interactions taking place between the brethren on X; but it is my past and current understanding that such interactions have become very few and far between compared to the majority of social media posts.

👉 So, to my anonymous brother or sister who asked the question, yes, I miss X; or, rather, I miss the people I knew from X. And if I knew who you were, I could likely say with genuine sincerity that I greatly miss you personally as well. However, as of right now, I continue to believe my absence is still what God has called me to.