The Life Performative

Social media makes us the star of our own reality series. Blogging does too, but most blogs lack the kind of immediate feedback mechanisms of social media platforms. The marmot doesn't get "likes" or "re-" anything, so most of the experience is like shouting into the void. Which has charms of its own. But the social media platforms are literally that. Stages, where users perform their online personas. I have to wonder how much of that online presence is shaped by the feedback people receive. It has to have some effect. We started talking a bit about other note-taking apps in yesterday's Tinderbox meet-up. This prompted a line of thought in my mind, which kind of kept me preoccupied during much of the session. I always thought it was odd that certain types of apps seem to appear in clusters. Roam, Obsidian, LogSeq, etc. Or "distraction-free" writing environments, like iA Writer, Bear, Ulysses, and probably dozens more. I think a lot of it has to do with social media. Software…