Note To Selfie Dickerson Analysis

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1. In his article, Note to Selfie, Dickerson argues that people are not missing out on meaningful events in their life when taking pictures or posting their moment on social media because pictures and videos are even more powerful than written words, in which they allow people to remember the details and meanings of their life. He also claims that when people pause to write about what is going on in their life on Facebook or Twitter, they are also engaging with it because they and inspired and they are picking words to convey their feeling. Dickerson also recall the moments when he was with his children, and he explains that he was able to look at the photos and access to the feelings that he used to have with his children. At last, Dickerson …show more content…

As a matter of fact, most of the people don’t have super memory and we forget many of the important events of our life. As technology advanced, people can easily keep or sharing their photos online privately or publicly, this also allows us to have better access to our memory. It is always good to review our old photos, to find out the changes we have made over time, and reflect on what we like and who we are. Looking back to our life, we notice that every little thing mean a lot more to us than we thought before. Use myself as an example, 99 weeks ago I took a picture of a pencil drawing at the place where I worked (a community center for seniors) and post it on Intagram, I wrote “I see myself 50 years from now.” I wrote that because I was thinking, when I retire I will do something I like, drawing for example. After entering college, I have not draw for a long time and almost forget that I love to draw. I am glad that my post reminds me of what I like, and what I want to do. Like Dickerson mention, “Don’t tweet or Intagram for fear that someone think you’re not living in the moment.” Use social media as a tool for you to think about your life and record the meaning at certain …show more content…

Social media makes us all Joan Didions because our old posts (written word or photos) allows us to look back to our life and understand what we were thinking and looking. It is very surprising that we can learn a lot about ourselves by looking at our social media page. When I look at my first ten posts from Intagram and Facebook from few years ago, I feel like I am looking at a person that I did not really know. Although it can be embarrassed when we see how different we are from now, we learned our growing process and the changes we made. Like Didions who writes to find out what she is thinking, what she is looking, and what she see meaning to her, everyone of us is posting our moments on social media so later we can use it for self

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