This urge to be less online. To be less performative, less see-through, less concerned with what others think of how we live, and more deeply involved and intimate with our own real local lives.

“What I’m trying to protect now is presence. The ability to have an experience without immediately narrativizing it for an audience. To feel what I feel without calculating how it would perform. To say “this isn’t for public consumption” and mean it. To have a self that exists outside of how it’s perceived.”

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Because to not be online is to accept that you will be forgotten. This is the great, unspoken truth of our age. If you do not post, you do not exist. If you are not constantly reinforcing your presence, your relevance, your desirability, then you are slipping, shrinking, becoming unimportant. It is not enough to simply be anymore, you must be... See more