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RE: Creating Better Content: It's Called Show and TELL, not Show and RUN!

in #blog7 years ago

I strongly agree with your post. I am guilty of re-posting stuff on social media that I find interesting or important, only posting with the assumption that others will check it out and 'get it' as well.

"Conversely, posting "naked" images or content suggests to the world "I don't really care..." and when you send that message consider the possibility nobody else would "care," either. Why should they, if YOU don't?"

Exactly!

Thanks for this kick in the ass @denmarkguy, because in fact, I DO care. But as the saying goes "love is work made visible" - Yes, it takes work to show we care, otherwise it is hollow, empty, words un-lived.

Additionally, when I do a little write up about why the content engaged me, I am also defining it and looking more deeply at it myself, thus deepening my relationship with the media, and thus my relationship with myself. If I am simply re-posting 'naked' content, then it's like I don't even have my own unique identity, I am copying and pasting someone else that cared enough to create it.

Thanks again for this post - this is the kind of content I love, the kind that kicks me in the ass and makes me realized how to become a better version of myself.

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@kimzilla, thanks for the thoughtful comment!

Different social platforms have their own "personalities." Steemit is probably the closest to a true community you can find online, today. There really hasn't been anything like this since Xanga was pushed out of the way by MySpace and Facebook... and they were not an "improvement" because they largely encouraged taking the "content" out of social... thumbs-up and smileys were suddenly "enough." The "old ways" that were replaced had started out of blogging sites that added social features.

So, in a sense, Steemit marks a return to something we used to do.