It didn’t really happen if you didn't Facebook or Instagram it.
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
It didn’t really happen if you didn't Facebook or Instagram it.
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
"It didn't really happen if you didn't Facebook or Instagram it"Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
At least this is what John Weirick states in his article 3 Things to Stop Posting on Social Media for Relevant Magazine. He believes that our lives are becoming "less and less separate from the interactions we have on digital platforms." That we are revolving all of our conversations on what has been posted or tweeted recently rather than our morning jog or everyday work. - and I agree with him.
I have been guilty of this trait: looking on Facebook to see the juicy gossip and talking about it with my friends...hell, I think everyone has done it at least once in their lives. But the problem with this issue is our physical self vs. our digital self. Should we really be posting as much as we are online for the world to see? Shouldn't people want to get to know the actual me rather than the few updates I post every few weeks? Who cares how I feel or what I'm doing, don't people have better things to do other than creep me on Facebook (granted, my pics are pretty sweet). The point of this whole article, this blog, is to get people to really consider what they put online.
We, as students, about to enter the real world are told almost everyday to watch the photo's we choose to put up. That future employers will be looking at us, and that one photo doing tequila shots on the bar will come back and bite us in the ass someday. Or that post with all the swear words because you were pissed off at your roommate will re-surface and start a whole new argument with a bunch of different people it didn't originate with. There are definitely some "unhealthy ways to post things online" says Weirick.
The article continues on with a sarcastic tone of specific things people really shouldn't post online, like emotions, endless love letters to boyfriends/girlfriends and posting the same things over and over again. As active social media goers ourselves, we know them all. We have all either witnessed them or are guilty of committing them ourselves.
Now, today, this moment, is our time to realize that our physical lives, our private lives shouldn't be 100% for the public to know about on social media. That there are certain aspects of our lives that are meant to stay private. We need a gap, a distance between our 2 beings, or we are all going to get lost in each other, and stop focusing on ourselves. Everyone can start small, like trying not to tweet for a whole 24 hours. People shouldn't be focused of getting to know your digital selves. Instead, they should want to get to know out actual selves, to want to hangout in person rather than follow our pages or check our newsfeeds.
It didn’t really happen if you didn't Facebook or Instagram it.
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/3-things-stop-posting-social-media#iv2Zomx86PeLjpq6.99
I really enjoyed this post, because its something that i agree with. I do feel that people should stop posting their lives on the internet because to be honest no one really cares. My biggest issue with posts like this, is instagram. for some reason people feel the need to post photos of everything they eat on instagram and all i can think is stop no one cares now im hungry. People need to go out and live their own lives and realize its okay to eat a cheeseburger without posting a photo of it.
ReplyDeleteThis post is making me think, and I like that. I skimmed the article you linked (I want to read the whole thing but we're literally in class right now) and found things that I agreed with and things that I didn't entirely agree with. Derek, in the above comment, brings up a good point about posting pictures of meals. I'm curious about exploring more the differences between our digital selves and our personal selves and what that means and the way that affects us. I'm going to look up transhumanism.
ReplyDeleteYou make some very good points about our lives becoming a display for everyone to see. I agree that some people should not post what they do on Facebook and I witness this all of the time on social media networks.
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