I love the blog Swiss-Miss. It leads me to wonderful places that I’ve shared here over the years. Lots of creative stuff. UnselfingSocial is one of those places.
“We are living through a pandemic of selfing — rampant self-celebration that mistakes applause for connection, likes for love. There must be another way — a way to unself just enough to remember each other, to grow a little more…”
I know several people — some friends, some acquaintances — who post on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok like it’s their job. They are not influencers, they’re addicted to likes. Likes or comments — everyday — several times a day.
As an experiment, for one continuous month, make the focus of one in every three things you share on social media — wherever you normally share, however regularly or irregularly you do, however many people you reach — something other than yourself or your own work: a friend’s art project, a stranger’s poem, a record by a musician you love, the tree shimmering with majesty and mystery in the low morning light, someone in your community you admire, a bygone pioneer of something you value, a book that spun you on your axis, the lost cat sign crayoned by a neighbor’s child, the new community garden a few blocks over, news of the dazzling galaxy discovered by the dazzling new space telescope a few million lightyears over.
How lovely is that? Try it for a month. How fun would social media be if we flooded it with something other than ourselves? It would be fun.
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