The Aftermath: What We Learned & Why It's Important
People aren't perfect, and we certainly never expected my mother to be. Watching and recording her activity over the past month, I definitely feel like I was being both a) creepy, for reading through/making screenshots of the posts on her timeline, and b) protective of both my mom's online image and even my own. In a way, I felt like I was being critical and that wasn't the point. It wasn't to critique what my mom was doing or saying on Facebook. Instead, what I learned from #ProjectSocialMedia was that it's NOT about the amount of time we are spending on our profiles, scrolling through Tweets and timelines, but about how we're using that time. Because the way that social media connects us, does affect us. And that's the whole point. As people, we yearn for communication, for a chance to showcase ourselves not solely because that's what social networking is for, but because through this effortful medium we truly become connected.