In the age of social media, do we create our expressions out of our knowledge, with our ideas that have been thought about for a long time or with our estimations/convictions?
Our convictions about events and situations that we can control, change, improve can not be underestimated for sure.
But much more of our convictions seems to be about matters beyond our scope. Our opinions on politics, economy, climate change, inequality and injustice surrounding the world are enormous in comparison to what we form in daily life.
Social media also knows deep down that there is a mass that will support these opinions and that another crowd will oppose them…
Maybe this is the contradiction of social media: We get involved in a system that seems to be individual-centered, under our own name or under our pseudonym and as soon as we start to share our opinions, we join the masses.
We take and claim our humble place in a mass of data we can not even comprehend!
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