Perhaps some useful contemplation for those doing end-of-year contemplation: https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1184069771106627584

In a year in which so many of us have been Extremely Online, I think it's important to remember that we are all interacting with images of each other. I talked about it in this podcast last year. https://www.therealists.org/2019/12/the-memory-police-how-social-media-changed-friendships/

As a journalist, and just as a person, I've learned to see through image-making, branding, posturing pretty quickly. But a lot of people still take the assumption that someone's online presence fully represents them. Thinking that can leaves us ignorant and incurious abt others

Anyway rest assured that I banged on about this for most of 2019, have noted it in 2020 and will continue pointing it out into 2021. Take better care of your understanding of people than leaving it to online chance. IRL interaction is hugely important to understanding someone.

I guess I'm surprised that no man has yet overconfidently summarized my own ideas back to me with a superior mansplaining tone. My time will come, I suppose. https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1111556858031063040