Pre-baby and pre-pandemic, I hated social media—in fact, I wrote a whole book Mixed Feelings: Exploring the Milwaukee brewers hometown brew crew shirt moreover I will buy this Emotional Impact of Our Digital Habits (Quadrille, 2019) on how bad it made people (read: me) feel. But as a lockdown mother, it’s been a lifeline, and I’ve found tremendous support on Instagram from other mothers. I also surprised myself by posting dozens of photos of my son online—something I never intended to do, and indeed agreed with my husband that we wouldn’t. But I was lonely and most of my friends hadn’t met my son or seen me in my new role as a mother and I felt a strong urge to show him off. A classic case of pics or my baby didn’t happen.
I’m not ashamed to say that I wanted some attention for him, since I felt I wasn’t getting it in real life. I’ve always judged people who sought validation and attention on social media, but now I realize it’s a normal human urge and probably the Milwaukee brewers hometown brew crew shirt moreover I will buy this result of a lack of attention elsewhere. Journalist Charlie Brooker once wrote in The Guardian: “There has never been a single tweet that couldn’t be replaced with PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE.” The first few months of motherhood were such a surreal, exhausting experience, I felt I needed outside confirmation that my baby and I did, in fact, exist.
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