TL;DR: I left social media but still needed a small corner on the internet to put my dad jokes.
I don’t recall the day I joined Facebook, Twitter, or even Instagram. They all just seemed to not be a part of my life one day, and be an extra limb on the next. They went from being a place I would go to to chat with friends to being a place I would find myself (as in, without having intended to go there, AND redefining meaning for my life in there). Now a few years older, I did what any Ugandan should do and “made a research” about them. What I found was depressing, but that’s a story for another day. In that time, I thought to myself, “I can’t stay on here any longer”.
“But where will you go?”
“I don’t know, but I can’t stay on here any longer”
“Where will potential clients find your work? or contact you?”
I was frustrated.
This phrase, “Everyone is on social media” kept haunting my days and nights. Unfortunately, I was asleep at night so the haunts only worked during the daytime.
Then one day – many months later – I woke up and deleted my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. All the while, my brain brought up every single possible Facebook message, Twitter thread, and Instagram art posts I was going to miss out on. It was hard. By the time I was halfway through, I was sure I wasn’t sure what I was doing anymore. “Maybe I am being too harsh?” I thought to myself as I searched “how to delete an Instagram account”.
Once I was done with deleting them, I needed a place to harness some of the good ideas the social platforms had, such as sharing memes bible verses, and reading interesting things on the internet. I knew (still do) I wasn’t a particularly significantly useful person to society, but I thought (and strongly believed) that an effort on my part was necessary. Perhaps, if the Lord willed, one sentence in one of a thousand posts I put online might help a soul out there find their way to the Lord Jesus Christ, or – at the very least – consider his claims as they decide whether or not to trust him with their life.
A very profound piece of literature that cemented this idea for me was from one of my uncles, Mr. Shai Linne (where I’m from, we refer to older men, especially those that are role model material, as ‘uncle’). Uncle Linne said he was “praying that the Lord would use something [Uncle Linne] made to bring people to Him even after [uncle was] gone”. He was in part referring to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. For context, refer to “Turn it off” from his 2017 album, “Still Jesus”.
Now, I must say that the content that I will upload will be varied. This is because I’m playing it by ear. I hope to share work including/about art, technology, and (how they interact with) worldviews (faith). The frequency of updates is any man’s guess. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, consider memorising this URL(planb.ug) or bookmarking it 😁
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