A form of communication? Probably not.
A mirror only reflects us as we are seen
Whereas Facebook reflects us
How we want to be seen by others:
Cool, perfect, hip, thin, fashionable -
Not a mirror at all, unless the Witch
From Snow White has gone global
With production of her particular model.
Who is the fairest of them all?
On the web, each and every one of us.
This is the lie at the heart of social media.
We are not communicating with each other
But with idealised selves, indeed,
We are not even talking,
Judged as we are by our number of "friends"
Rather, we are "spectating" - life reduced
To reality TV for those with attention spans
Measured in bits, bytes and nanoseconds.
Why 'tell' when you can 'show'?
Because if what you are showing is not real
Then you are neither showing nor telling,
Merely filling space with more static junk
To one day rain down on our heads like all
The dead satellites and spaceman food,
Frozen piss drops and orbiting turds
The detritus of decades of trying
To finally have a conversation.
© shaun patrick green 2013
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