Instant Insecurity

OK, so cameras have "instant sharing" functions now. Basically, the new generation of cameras in the market have a function that lets you share your photos to your social network as soon as you've taken them.

This, plus the fact that mobile networks compete in providing the most affordable and most reliable services in enabling this via 3G or LTE networks.

One can't help but wonder: Have we gone so in need of affirmation that we cannot wait until we process our experiences before sharing them to the world? Why is there a sense of urgency in our insecurity?

Why do we tweet AT the moment, and not ABOUT the moment?

Do we need people to LIKE our dinner before we even taste it?

As a performance artist, the time-exclusivity of each performance--as bound by the "now"-ness of it--is a dimension that is integral in the piece's whole. When I perform a poem--as oppose to it being an object on the page, a written piece that you consume on your time--the performance is made richer by the fact that it exists on THAT MOMENT alone. The performance maybe the same for the audience who is watching it live and watching it on video via Youtube, but the performance will never be the same for the performer. The moment is the performance, the performance is the moment.

With this "instant sharing" nonsense, people are sharing their shit in real time. Now, everybody's going "look at me, look at me", and they're doing it NOW, and they're doing it easier, and they're doing it everywhere.

There is no process. There is no critical thinking involved in instant sharing. Instant sharing diminishes the experience. Processing the experience allows you to amalgate your learnings, your insights, your point of view, into the actual moment of experience. All of that is compromised through instant sharing, and for what? For the convenience of "getting liked right now".

It's dumb. And I don't trust people who NEED instant sharing in their lives.