We are used to the idea of giving witness to one’s life as an important and noble counterpoint to being unheard, especially when applied to people in certain disadvantaged, oppressed or unacceptable situations. But in a slightly more pathological way, I’m not sure that we aren’t seeing the emergence of society in which almost everyone who isn’t famous considers themselves cruelly and unfairly unheard. As through being famous, and the subject of wide attention is considered to the a fulfilled human being’s natural state - and so, as a corollary, the cruelly unheard millions are perpetually primed and fired up to answer any and all questions in order to redress this awful imbalance.
Recorded in 2009 or earlier, and published in Eating the Dinosaur in 2009, when Twitter was only 3 years old
Did social media create trends in opinion sharing and entitlement, or did social media capitalize on them?