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If you ever want to have a truly humbling experience \u2013 take on purging your digital life. Not \u201cunplugging\u201d in the big dramatic sense, but more in the sense of actively cleansing your digital profile. Not with the intention of \u201cnever going online again\u201d (obviously not, as I still keep this blog) but with the intention of actively taking control over what you do and interact with online and in social media.<\/p>\n
I guarantee you, you will be shocked.<\/p>\n
It has taken me three months\u2026THREE\u2026just to even make a dent in clearing out my Facebook profile. It\u2019s terrifying, that every little thing we do on this vast thing called the internet is recorded somewhere .Just because something drops off your visible profile, does not mean it\u2019s gone. I\u2019m still deleting old Farmville posts from my university days. And you have to double delete everything on top of that. Once that was even close to done, I tracked down my old original blog and wiped that out too.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still nowhere near finished. But it\u2019s getting there, slowly.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s opened my eyes to just how much the concept of privacy is an illusion. We rant and rave about it ,and yet we willingly give over our information to sources we don\u2019t control every single day. Whether or not it\u2019s good for us aside (and there are so many studies I\u2019ve read stating just how horrible for our brains it can be, particularly for kids) \u2013 how safe<\/em> is it? How are we just able to blindly trust the figures behind the curtain? And when<\/em> did we start doing so? It feels like just yesterday that I was thinking extremely hard \u2013 even at university age \u2013 about posting a single picture online.<\/p>\n In the meantime, this \u2013 disconnection \u2013 has had active influence on my day to day life. I\u2019m reading more, I\u2019m starting to look at my writing again, I\u2019m sleeping better and completing my craft projects faster. My attention span has stretched \u2013 or started to stretch- back out to where it was in theatre school.<\/p>\n It\u2019s interesting\u2026what you start to see when you allow yourself to look up from your screen\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you ever want to have a truly humbling experience \u2013 take on purging your digital life. Not \u201cunplugging\u201d in the big dramatic sense, but more in the sense of actively cleansing your digital profile. Not with the intention of … Continue reading