Being authentic is hard. Social doesn’t reward it with engagement. No one likes, retweets, or appreciates the factuality. Instead, we have come programmed to create endless moments of outrage, faux opinions, and triggers so we can generate some or any reaction. If only we paused to think “meaning,” not “metrics,” we all might be better.
As usual, very succinct observation. Nothing I do online in my ‘publishing’ of photo, video, audio or written word is sensational or edgy. It’s just me and really isn’t anything dramatic or politically incorrect. That’s one reason why I’m not a user of social media anymore and haven’t been for nearly 10 years. I use online forums related to things I’m interested in and I maintain an account on LinkedIN but this blog, my Flickr and YouTube channel are my creative outlets and they’re mostly languishing because I don’t follow trends or try to be as engaging.