The social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson describes users as developing “a ‘Facebook Eye’: our brains always looking for moments where the ephemeral blur of lived experience might best be translated into a Facebook post; one that will draw the most comments and ‘likes’.” We might feel this phenomenon in different ways, depending on which networks... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Mar 17, 2015
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This is true even for people (like me) who aren't on Facebook.
- John (bird whisperer)
It feels like this draws on the "I saw this and thought of you" or "I wish you'd been there for this" that predates social media, but that you see in photos, postcards, and letters. Of course, instead of intending that moment for just one person, it's often a number of people we keep in mind, because we can.
- Jennifer Dittrich