Do I look like a billboard to you ?
This essay by Jonathan Harris entitled “our digital crisis” has moved me deeply. (I found it via Swiss Miss).
Especially these lines:
“Our online tools do a great job at breadth (hundreds of friends, thousands of tweets), but a bad job at depth. We live increasingly superficial lives, reducing our relationships to caricatures and our personalities to billboards, as we speed along at 1,000 miles an hour.
We trade self-reflection for busyness, gorging ourselves on it and drowning in it, without recognizing the violence of that busyness, which we perpetrate against ourselves and at our peril.”
Sometimes, I think that people forget that things that are putted on the internet are real. Facebook events really happen (even there’s about a 50 % no-show). Social needs to be more than tools and clichéed buzzwords that everybody is talking about. It needs to have substance and be able to be implemented.
It needs to be what’s behind the billboard, and not the billboard in itself. It needs to be the processes, the substance, the flow, the thoughts.
It needs to be you. You need to be respected and accepted because your real. Not superficial. Not just a billboard.
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Henriette
he – it’s one of my favorites – found it on flickr and have been using it ever since – asked the guy who took it if it was ok that I used it for eternity. I want to be in that picture ! – not sure I could though, I would totally start laughing at every second =)
Hahaha, fantastisk billede! ;-D