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Is Social Media The Ultimate Buzz Kill?

• jamesbritt 18y ago
  'It wasn’t a money thing for the bands, but a consciousness thing. As long as people were focused on “documenting” the experience, they couldn’t be fully “in” the experience.' I've noticed this about vacations. On one trip I found myself way too preoccupied with recording images for some possible future perusal, while missing the immediate visceral experience. And it struck me as crazy. I do think a lot of what gets lumped into "social media" is a cult of distraction. It seems just a wee bit self-absorbed, too, and quite unsocial.