I don't use Instagram. I've always avoided it. This post brings out an excellent reason why.
But I don't agree with the post, especially not in the belief that "But when it comes to words and writing, technology seems to fail on every single front."
That's false.
Twitter is the reason I know about so many things involving the things and people I care about, even from a distance. Twitter is the reason I love the Mortal Instruments more ardently than without it, and Twitter is the reason I'm now friends with people that were just acquaintances before. Twitter is how I express myself in sentences without any of the in-context fumbling of real life. It shows the way I want to be seen. I like Twitter.
If not Twitter, then you could complain texting. I can't text. I suck at it. Nobody texts me, and if they do, the conversation is awkward and heartrate-inducing as I try to say the right things without knowing the context.
Gmail is the reason why I'm best friends with somebody who could have been simply "another" friend, how I can communicate what I mean and how I mean it without the pretenses real life puts between us.
Tumblr doesn't use words as nearly as much, but a thousand words conjured and posted on Tumblr as quotes, stupidly funny text posts, or simple fangirling bring me closer to people than I ever was before.
I don't mean to sound like a total loser, but without the Internet, I'd be a much worse writer.
And let's not forget that this blog is the product of writing and technology. And I love this blog, no matter how angst ridden it is.
So no, I disagree whole-heartedly. Both the Internet and books provide the words I need to feel okay sometimes, and make me the better person I want to be. They give me opportunities to learn and understand people and things that I only saw from afar before. I owe words, and thus technology, quite a lot.
Thanks for understanding
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