Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Tweeting your Hike?

The last few paragraphs of this article are fascinating, if rather sad. Essentially, the dude couldn't relax while exploring and hiking in Yosemite because of anxiety of being offline. Money quote:

I have this sense that experiences need to be shared in a much more mediated way to register to myself as having happened. ... But since online sharing has become a way of translating my own experiences to myself, without that process readily available to me, I felt dulled at times, alienated from myself to a degree.

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