Hi, my name is Jane. And I’m a social media addict.
October 22, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I sure am a social media addict. (All of us in the office are to some degree.) If I think about the amount of time I spend online in a given week, I’m sure it would rival the amount of time I sleep. Yeah, I know, time to find a support group.
That said, I think that active online lives can motivate us all to live richer “real” lives. Whenever we go out—provided we have cameras and good memories—we produce content (photos, quotes, stories, etc.) and our lived content can turn into online content, quite easily as you know. Imagine you coming home after a ridiculously fun night with your friends; you have pictures and jokes floating around in your happy little head. Time to update your Facebook profile, right? It’s kinda like living life so you can tell a story about it later. And that’s not such a bad thing, really: there’s incentive to live more interestingly. Sure, you can be zen and live in the moment—just make sure that moment is exciting!
Okay, so what’s the point of all this sociocultural-media-pscyhobabble? We here at VOO! think it’s a powerful thing to be able to share an experience in real life and then bring it into your digital life. We don’t have to look down upon online life for seemingly replacing or stealing away from real life. We should instead recognize it as an integral part of real life; it gives us the means and the space to continue celebrating our real life experiences, immortalizing them, capturing them and allowing us to easily savor them all over again.
Now, I really should move. I’ve been sitting in this chair in front of this screen for too long. Time to go out and live. And then tweet about it.
