A couple of years ago I was taking a real look at my social media self. Bringing back this tag to Roman Numeral J reminds me of my recent Facebook post about same date nostalgia.
When I was a kid I had a page-a-day sports calendar. For that reason I know that Jay Hilgenberg shares my birthday, March 21st. The date on which things happen is important to us (anniversaries, birthdays, deathdays) and being able to mark just how long ago a specific thing occurred helps comprehend the passage of time. This understanding, I think, can help calibrate our intentions - that is, understanding that you are now, say, 37, and that you were 28 - or maybe 19 - and had many of the same ideas, aspirations, or hopesdreams, and that there may be specific actions that need to be taken.
The link between memorial and memory is something I've written about (sorry, no link at present - not sure where that is). Facebook's new On This Day feature is symptomatic of our desire to memorialize our lives. However, Facebook's new version is imperfect. Today, we post instantly from our iPhones, and properly memorialize, but many of the earlier year Facebook memories I see in my feed are on the wrong day... I didn't post my vacation photos until I actually got back from vacation (because I used to use a camera to take pictures).
I don't mean to sound like an old coot. But I think the medium of social media is not built for memorialization, but they try...
I'll think this through, and remember it fondly. I think I'll tweet out a link to the post to try to keep the conversation going...
When I was a kid I had a page-a-day sports calendar. For that reason I know that Jay Hilgenberg shares my birthday, March 21st. The date on which things happen is important to us (anniversaries, birthdays, deathdays) and being able to mark just how long ago a specific thing occurred helps comprehend the passage of time. This understanding, I think, can help calibrate our intentions - that is, understanding that you are now, say, 37, and that you were 28 - or maybe 19 - and had many of the same ideas, aspirations, or hopesdreams, and that there may be specific actions that need to be taken.
The link between memorial and memory is something I've written about (sorry, no link at present - not sure where that is). Facebook's new On This Day feature is symptomatic of our desire to memorialize our lives. However, Facebook's new version is imperfect. Today, we post instantly from our iPhones, and properly memorialize, but many of the earlier year Facebook memories I see in my feed are on the wrong day... I didn't post my vacation photos until I actually got back from vacation (because I used to use a camera to take pictures).
I don't mean to sound like an old coot. But I think the medium of social media is not built for memorialization, but they try...
I'll think this through, and remember it fondly. I think I'll tweet out a link to the post to try to keep the conversation going...
