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Speak the wrong word, express the wrong thought, and you might as well have committed treason in a digital public square that is both Aldous Huxley’s hedonistic distraction and Ray Bradbury’s incinerator of ideas…It’s not just being yourself — it’s knowing yourself in a society that thrives on your uncertainty.

This is what growing up very visibly online is like. It’s hard not to internalize the sense that you’re constantly being watched and thus everything you do demands a defensible explanation. **Granted, there are many benefits to this — incredible opportunities are unlocked by constructing a digitally consumable caricature of yourself that makes you ... See more

Molly Mielke • callings

Social media should be, and used to be, a tool to make real life easier, not replace it. We’re spending all this time indulging voyeurism and inventing people to be mad at and then looking up at the real world and asking who let it all go to shit.