21 December

I think this is so much truer than people will admit. It’s like a ritual, we affect being interested in other peoples’ personal lives, in their ‘gorgeous’ children and ‘amazing’ holidays. But I would bet a lot of it is just the polite ritual that allows us to dump our own next lot of personal trivia onto others. Some people probably remember slide nights. Where you were trapped at somebody’s house, watching hundreds of slides of their recent trip or family adventures. Excruciating torture. And yet...this is the bread and butter of social media, like FB? But worse, it’s like being at 200 slide nights at once. More curated selves I think. It’s not just the sharing of information, it’s social positioning, status-building.