I am doing it again.
Or am I?
Seems that question runs through my mind lately.
I have been reading, discussing, thinking about social media a whole lot lately. On my FaceCrack. Instgram. Twitter. SnapChat. And let us not forget this blog.
Discussions of what social media is doing to us. Both on the positive, and the negative.
At what point is exposure too much? Are we creating a culture of narcissists?
I joke about being an attention whore. And it is something that I think about. As I am posting on the above list.
The things I do write and post about I try as much as possible to take the side that is slightly twisted.
Seems only fair. At least to me.
We would all hope that others would do the same. Unfortunately, they do not.
Your faith. Your beliefs. Your dislikes. Your dogs. Your cats. Your family. Your food. Your travels.
And I do exactly the same. Because I trust you to exercise your ability to choose. And comment. Hopefully. Because it is commentary that makes it all interesting.
Unless you are my poor deluded nephew who thinks that intelligent discourse can only be accomplished through the use of memes.
2 comments
Comment by RAYMOND B TALLEY III on October 16, 2018 at 6:09 am
I have given this some notice lately too. I think the comparisons of gaming and onlinedia to a drug is more real than we could possibly have imagined when first released to the public.
It almost like the Borg, assimilating us all, making us generic in our external responses. But it drives the real ‘us’ deeper and harder to get at.
Comment by wormdude@gmail.com on October 16, 2018 at 6:39 pm
That offers a very interesting slant on it, Ray. I appreciate it. I have always wondered if that cliche of people plugging in and not ever wanting to come out was true or not. But there is that itch if I don’t open the spigot to what is sloshing around in my head and let it out on the Web.