What are we feeding ourselves with our Feeds?
“I’m going to check my Feed,” I heard myself say when a waiter handed my son a little laminated card with the café’s Wi-fi password. We had just visited the Palace of Knossis in Crete, Greece—the first known civilization—yet there we were, sitting at a beautiful outdoor café hungry for free Wi-fi. I was hungry for information and news from home. But I was also hungry for validation, checking to see how many “likes” and comments I’d received on a photo I’d posted the previous day.
Rather than looking up to appreciate the sounds, scents and scenes around us, all of us had our heads in our phones. I had told myself that reading posts or articles about mindfulness were okay. Yet they detach me from the moment at hand. Now I limit myself to an hour or less a day of all social media interaction. I aim to read and post after I’ve done my own writing, when I’m alone and not distracting myself from my priorities—family, friends, students and colleagues.
Rather than looking up to appreciate the sounds, scents and scenes around us, all of us had our heads in our phones. I had told myself that reading posts or articles about mindfulness were okay. Yet they detach me from the moment at hand. Now I limit myself to an hour or less a day of all social media interaction. I aim to read and post after I’ve done my own writing, when I’m alone and not distracting myself from my priorities—family, friends, students and colleagues.
What does your Feed feed you? What’s a fitting Feeding time for you?
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