What a great post! Can't believe I missed it. I think the curators you are mentioning might be alike "influencers" but somewhat educated ones. Ones that have knowledge and opinions on specific topics. Even though working in a large marketing department, I too spend much less time on social medias (except here on Substack), and try to be more in the "now". In fact, last year, I used a privacy a tool called "Redact" to clean up my social media. I must have set something wrong, because I inadvertently deleted ALL my facebook friends. "Well, that settles it then" I thought. And that's how I stopped using Facebook. Do I regret it. Nope.
Curators play such an active role, they are in a sense the new authors. It's already the case in arts, but I guess it's fundamental to make sense of what happens online. Especially if we consider that internet is not eternal.
I think about the fleeting nature of the Internet and all things digital frequently. It’s pretty crazy how we let technology hold all of our most precious things without consideration for how they will go on after us, if at all.
What a great post! Can't believe I missed it. I think the curators you are mentioning might be alike "influencers" but somewhat educated ones. Ones that have knowledge and opinions on specific topics. Even though working in a large marketing department, I too spend much less time on social medias (except here on Substack), and try to be more in the "now". In fact, last year, I used a privacy a tool called "Redact" to clean up my social media. I must have set something wrong, because I inadvertently deleted ALL my facebook friends. "Well, that settles it then" I thought. And that's how I stopped using Facebook. Do I regret it. Nope.
Haha oh no!!! Facebook is a hot mess anyway. Do you feel better off? Do you miss it?
I don't miss it at all! Definitely created some mental space.
Curators play such an active role, they are in a sense the new authors. It's already the case in arts, but I guess it's fundamental to make sense of what happens online. Especially if we consider that internet is not eternal.
https://aliveinsocialmedia.substack.com/p/internet-is-not-eternal-memory-as?utm_source=publication-search
I think about the fleeting nature of the Internet and all things digital frequently. It’s pretty crazy how we let technology hold all of our most precious things without consideration for how they will go on after us, if at all.
Jaime this post was fantastic!
Thank you 🫶