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The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, By Peggy Orenstein

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We live in a world where technology is always evolving and improving. Phones have become essential to our daily lives. This also means that social media is at the palm of our hands. We can’t even discriminate the use on just teenagers anymore. Older generations are just as bad with the use of technology and social media too. Social media has impacted humans and the way they live, and many don’t realize it. Peggy Orenstein writes a short story The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am which she goes on to say how social media has effectively blurred the lines between the public and the private self as well as the “authentic and contrived self.” In my opinion, if you are active on social media, you have no privacy. I mean it in two ways. One way is, people are so inclined to post about their days. Whether it’s about something that happened to them, …show more content…

When Orenstein says that the lines between the public and the private self has been blurred by social media, I think she is trying to say how many people have become so consumed with it. People base their life around social media. Rather than being present in the moment, people are posting about it and they miss the true experience. Imagine this: You see a someone getting on one knee and asking their partner to marry them and that person screams yes full of excitement but immediately goes to their social media to tell the world about it. They just had an intimate experience but it was cut short due to the person's need to tell twitter or instagram. Now, I’m not saying that all people actually do this, but people do ruin intimate moments with loved ones by the use of their cellphones and social media. Orenstein herself shared an experience being with her daughter outside and she admittedly said, “...a year ago I would have been fully present for it. But instead a part of my consciousness had split off and was

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