Your Boring, Everyday Life Belongs on Social Media

guest · Feb 21, 2019

Your Boring, Everyday Life Belongs on Social Media
February 20, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/your-boring-everyday-life-belongs-on-social-media/

In this tomato-centric video, they wander through a chain supermarket doing their weekly shopping.
The video is, it must be said, so mundane. It also has tens of thousands of views and is part of a growing subgenre of YouTube supermarket tours.

Barasch’s research suggests that getting glimpses into another person’s genuine nature makes the viewer feel more connected and even makes the subject “more appealing as a mate.”
When they’re candid (or at least not edited to a high-polished sheen), the photos that should be cringey or dull are the ones that make us feel good.

Aspirational social media is constantly begging you to unmoor yourself from the everyday and literally buy into a filtered, curated reality you can’t have.
Beautifully boring posts, as Bob Ross would say, are the attention economy’s happy—and necessary—little accidents.
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