Snacks is a writing column on various topics. It’s offered once a month to all subscribers. ✨Sharing Snacks on social media, email, or text is highly encouraged✨ Everyone wants to be found, to be discovered. This seems to be an innate feeling in all of us and it goes back to the childhood game, “Hide-and-Seek.”
Wow I love this. It made me think about the relationship between hiding from ourselves and hiding from others. Sometimes we hide from others in order to hide from ourselves and sometimes we hide from others because we know ourselves. And I’m sure there is an in between and constant evolution to this. This shift in visibility feels important.
This made me think of Andy Warhol's prediction that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
What he didn't tell us -- or maybe what he didn't think about -- is that not everyone wants that fame...
Un-digitizing is becoming more and more common, I think. I know people who take "social media vacations" and similar tactics. But maybe all it takes is realizing that the digital you isn't the real you, and that you can separate them if you want.
In some ways, that's an even sneakier way to hide. Don't let your true "self" be digitized in the first place. (Though I imagine easier said than done for some...)
Technology always brings some bad along with the good, doesn't it? lol
Wow I love this. It made me think about the relationship between hiding from ourselves and hiding from others. Sometimes we hide from others in order to hide from ourselves and sometimes we hide from others because we know ourselves. And I’m sure there is an in between and constant evolution to this. This shift in visibility feels important.
This made me think of Andy Warhol's prediction that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
What he didn't tell us -- or maybe what he didn't think about -- is that not everyone wants that fame...
Un-digitizing is becoming more and more common, I think. I know people who take "social media vacations" and similar tactics. But maybe all it takes is realizing that the digital you isn't the real you, and that you can separate them if you want.
In some ways, that's an even sneakier way to hide. Don't let your true "self" be digitized in the first place. (Though I imagine easier said than done for some...)
Technology always brings some bad along with the good, doesn't it? lol
~Graham