The Ephemeral Photo - Post #2

 Jordan (JoJo, if you will) brought up some excellent points in her response to the Jurgenson reading (check it out here). We ended up having a decently long conversation about social media and its implications in 2022. We spent an especially long time talking about filters and how they were a necessity in the early age of social media. I find this notion especially interesting because proves Jurgenson's point about smartphones completely changing photography. This made me immediately think about apps like Snapchat where pictures are temporary. Like many Gen Z folks, I remember in high school being very concerned about keeping Snapchat "streaks". Streaks were a way to feel connected to people without communicating, and I believe that type of artificial "social" media is what Jurgenson is getting to the bottom to. 

I have recently been enjoying the app NoteIt, where you can draw pictures and send them to another NoteIt user (it's like Snapchat but much more self indulgent). Similarly to Snapchat, once you send the picture, they disappear off of your app and I have taken the liberty to disrupt this by taking screenshots of a few of my favorite creations (these took anywhere from twenty to forty minutes a piece, unfortunately.).

 

Social media is bizarre and wonderful, and even if it feigns a social connection, it still makes you feel a little more "together" with your peers. What's the harm in that?

Ciao,

Sophia