Social media: “this crowded and filthy global toilet” —Naomi Klein
“When I joined Twitter and clicked on the little bell icon signifying my ‘mentions’, that was my initial thought: I was reading the graffiti written about me on an infinitely scrolling restroom wall.
As a frequently graffitied-about girl in high school, this felt both familiar and deeply harrowing. I instantly knew that Twitter was going to be bad for me — and yet, like so many of us, I could not stop looking. So perhaps if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilising appearance of my doppelganger, this is it. Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.
I might have heeded my message, too. If COVID hadn't intervened”
Naomi Klein quoted from the final paragraph of Chapter 1 of her memoir Doppelganger: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
CC BY-SA portrait of Naomi Klein speaking at Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam in 2017 by Vera de Kok from Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/AQnu
Social media: “this crowded and filthy global toilet” —Naomi Klein
“When I joined Twitter and clicked on the little bell icon signifying my ‘mentions’, that was my initial thought: I was reading the graffiti written about me on an infinitely scrolling restroom wall.
As a frequently graffitied-about girl in high school, this felt both familiar and deeply harrowing. I instantly knew that Twitter was going to be bad for me — and yet, like so many of us, I could not stop looking. So perhaps if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilising appearance of my doppelganger, this is it. Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.
I might have heeded my message, too. If COVID hadn't intervened”
Naomi Klein quoted from the final paragraph of Chapter 1 of her memoir Doppelganger: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
CC BY-SA portrait of Naomi Klein speaking at Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam in 2017 by Vera de Kok from Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/AQnu