Thank you! There is probably someone out there who knows which rooms of your house you spend the most time in thanks to the location tracking services your phone apps provide. I think about this a little too often...
This is such a thoughtful meditation on digital identity and how we leave traces of ourselves everywhere we’ve been. I especially love the idea of these pages becoming a “mosaic,” little fragments of who we were at different moments in time.
Reading this, I couldn’t help thinking about how our old profiles almost feel like past lives. My old MySpace still exists somewhere, but the person who curated it isn’t the same “me” I am now. It’s like finding a photograph of a version of yourself you’ve already outgrown, familiar, but also a little ghostly.
Your poem captures that strange overlap between memory, identity, and the way we shed old selves while they continue to live on, as quiet evidence that we were here.
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this. 🤍
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Such a deep poem! Most of time we think that we can simply go incognito but actually we were never right about it
Thank you! There is probably someone out there who knows which rooms of your house you spend the most time in thanks to the location tracking services your phone apps provide. I think about this a little too often...
This is such a thoughtful meditation on digital identity and how we leave traces of ourselves everywhere we’ve been. I especially love the idea of these pages becoming a “mosaic,” little fragments of who we were at different moments in time.
Reading this, I couldn’t help thinking about how our old profiles almost feel like past lives. My old MySpace still exists somewhere, but the person who curated it isn’t the same “me” I am now. It’s like finding a photograph of a version of yourself you’ve already outgrown, familiar, but also a little ghostly.
Your poem captures that strange overlap between memory, identity, and the way we shed old selves while they continue to live on, as quiet evidence that we were here.
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this. 🤍
Thank you for the restack and your generous appraisal Gemma. Always appreciate your input. ❤️