“Documenting your experiences for social media means you never actually lived them”
Agree
- You're performing life instead of experiencing it
- The camera creates distance from genuine presence
- Memory becomes corrupted by the documentation
- You're living for an audience not yourself
Disagree
- Sharing is part of the human experience
- Documentation enhances memory and reflection
- Gatekeeping how people experience things is weird
- This nostalgic view ignores evolution of consciousness
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