…i think teenage me would be pleased to hear that the internet is no longer the primary place where i can find visions of my future. the internet is no longer the primary "place” where i can feel and experience possibility.
it has fed me images for over a decade of what my life could look like, what it should look like. who i can be, who i can befriend, where i can go, what i can do, what i can say, how i can act, what i can wear, what i can buy. i thought that perhaps the more i poured into it, the more it could tell me who i am. but the internet is not our friend. these platforms are not our friends. these platforms need us more than we need them. our friends, our interests, our neighborhood, our loved ones, our creations… those have the real power to reflect back to us who we are….
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