Interesting take on social media and content creators. I have always wondered how the joy of living in the present must be lessened by the need to be thinking of how it will add to content. It doesn't seem to me to be a fair trade for you. And I love following you. Your photos and adventures are interesting but your take on all this is fascinating. It is sort of like you are seeing all of this with a third eye. The event, your acknowedgement of it, and then your role in the process.
I hope you find a way to enjoy this balmy but gray (so far) winter. Every day is a gift.
Reading your thoughts - and thoughts of those who comment - is really opening my mind up about writing. I’ve written my whole life mostly just for me (better known as journaling I guess) and more recently to share with family - —- “pre social media, pre blog, pre even computer”. The feel of pencil (not pen) on paper just warms my heart and soul somehow. I’ve kinda self-published twice now and I like the feeling of having pulled together a sense of ME to be shared with no one - except family and self.
BUT - thinking about sharing words with the wider world, it’s intriguing! Thanks for broadening the perspective of an old lady! It’s never too late to learn!
“Everyone’s social media page— your’s, mine— is a reflection of how they would like to be seen and not who they actually are.”
I wish more people understood this. The temptation to disappear off of social media grows stronger every day. Commitments keep me around, and keep me posting. However, it is increasingly more difficult to want to put anything out there, and cutting ties would be like severing the infectious limb.
Though not the main focus of this post, some of your sentiments are comforting in the sense that it’s nice knowing I don’t sit in solitary with similar thoughts.
(And apologies for hitting post by accident on two posts instead of one). But a year ago I liked your stuff, and eventually like enough to support your substation and the last few writing s have show a depth and metacognition that is worthy of appreciation. And while your turmoil in identity and exposure is fair and real- know that it is genuine and thanked and brings depth to your future. Speaking from someone who has lived many of their dreams and still felt empty - you are on the write track to something more and I am glad to see it as a quiet observer
I don’t comment on social media- just because you posted pictures that inspire me and seem to like the things I like: I don’t have that right to engage more then just enjoyment. And I have constant self doubt and awareness that I don’t want to seem like some dude that feels
You hooked me with the title. Great post! So much I'd like to comment on but I just want to say thanks for writing this. And oh, by the way, love the pics, especially the Smokies one:)
Maddy,
Interesting take on social media and content creators. I have always wondered how the joy of living in the present must be lessened by the need to be thinking of how it will add to content. It doesn't seem to me to be a fair trade for you. And I love following you. Your photos and adventures are interesting but your take on all this is fascinating. It is sort of like you are seeing all of this with a third eye. The event, your acknowedgement of it, and then your role in the process.
I hope you find a way to enjoy this balmy but gray (so far) winter. Every day is a gift.
Mark
Reading your thoughts - and thoughts of those who comment - is really opening my mind up about writing. I’ve written my whole life mostly just for me (better known as journaling I guess) and more recently to share with family - —- “pre social media, pre blog, pre even computer”. The feel of pencil (not pen) on paper just warms my heart and soul somehow. I’ve kinda self-published twice now and I like the feeling of having pulled together a sense of ME to be shared with no one - except family and self.
BUT - thinking about sharing words with the wider world, it’s intriguing! Thanks for broadening the perspective of an old lady! It’s never too late to learn!
“Everyone’s social media page— your’s, mine— is a reflection of how they would like to be seen and not who they actually are.”
I wish more people understood this. The temptation to disappear off of social media grows stronger every day. Commitments keep me around, and keep me posting. However, it is increasingly more difficult to want to put anything out there, and cutting ties would be like severing the infectious limb.
Though not the main focus of this post, some of your sentiments are comforting in the sense that it’s nice knowing I don’t sit in solitary with similar thoughts.
(And apologies for hitting post by accident on two posts instead of one). But a year ago I liked your stuff, and eventually like enough to support your substation and the last few writing s have show a depth and metacognition that is worthy of appreciation. And while your turmoil in identity and exposure is fair and real- know that it is genuine and thanked and brings depth to your future. Speaking from someone who has lived many of their dreams and still felt empty - you are on the write track to something more and I am glad to see it as a quiet observer
I don’t comment on social media- just because you posted pictures that inspire me and seem to like the things I like: I don’t have that right to engage more then just enjoyment. And I have constant self doubt and awareness that I don’t want to seem like some dude that feels
You hooked me with the title. Great post! So much I'd like to comment on but I just want to say thanks for writing this. And oh, by the way, love the pics, especially the Smokies one:)