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Social Media is a Tapestry of Humanity
A little while ago, humans figured out how to make fire, and that cooking meat on a fire made it taste rather delicious. While the steak was sizzling we realized it was a good time to tell stories. To perhaps sing some songs as well.
We later figured out how to create drawings on cave walls in such a way as to have them move when torch light flickered over the walls. Today we ask a machine to make images that move. Telling stories through words, art and music are at the core to what it means to be human. A part of culture.
A little while later, we replaced the fireside chatter with the internet and because we love to tell stories, we created social media. Lots of horrible things happened. But also lots of wonderful things. We forget that and we shouldn’t. Because what is wonderful about social media is also what is wonderful about humans.
For a very long time it took stories a while to spread around the world. Because it took so long, ideas, innovations, religious beliefs and the stories that informed is about how to live, how to cooperate and how to survive, evolved us very slowly.
As communications and transportation technologies developed, stories spread a lot faster. Sometimes we didn’t like one another’s stories, especially one large society to another. We would reject other societies outright…
