created 2025-05-26, & modified, =this.modified
tags:y2025
I think a lot of people feel invested in the cycle of social media (in the sense of the current trends, their friends, and social standing) – so that they cannot stop for a period of time or feel adrift. There’s a pressure to know what Joe is up to.
But it must feel on, on some level, stifling to need your “update” of the day. Some time in the limited day, must be divided by these checks and then with doing.
You must be left behind (at least slightly), to actually be a creator and thus apart of the community.
When you hear of people making something, such as games and ask them what games they are playing – I’d wager it tends to be different than what someone who keeps abreast of the latest games is playing (“I can’t wait till this project is done so I can game again.) I feel like inspiration and play is important, but at some point the controller has to be set aside to actually work on the personal creative project.
A sequence of visual, instantly forgotten, trivialities in a feed might bring upon a period of disgust which compels action, but I feel for many they’ll just continue, never really evaluating that time investment which would allow them to produce something that would be nourishing, disrupting and fatiguing in different measures – the result of which will be possibly a meager unnoticed contribution, but your own.