Nicholas Young

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Posts about social-media

Leaving Twitter

Changes in the platform and the constant evolution of how I use media have created too many incompatibilities.

Our Instagram Life

Tweet. Post. Comment. Like. This era has it’s own lingo; a jargon-addled psuedolanguage that sometimes barely resembles recognized speech or written words. Children, teenagers, and adults alike all speak it; as everyone desperately tries to capture fleeting memories with short blocks of text, a blurry photograph, or an unlistenable audio clip.