Social media do not recognize chronological age, gender, time, and space.
When a person reads a posting, he will initially, subconsciously assume that it was made by someone of his own age and gender. Utterly regardless of whether the encoder is 80, 50, 30, 18, 12, or eight years old, whether he is a man or a woman, whether he has just risen in the morning or is being beset with insomnia at midnight, or whether he is in Bali or in Antarctica.
This is because social media users have quickly learned not to trust images on-line, which are sometimes meant to disguise rather than reveal and which are most often borrowed from different sources.
On social media, a picture is not worth more than a thousand words. It's the words that always count, that can be analyzed and interpreted, and that bear lasting messages.
Imagine all my blogs with pictures only, for example.
And then imagine my blogs only with words.
When a person reads a posting, he will initially, subconsciously assume that it was made by someone of his own age and gender. Utterly regardless of whether the encoder is 80, 50, 30, 18, 12, or eight years old, whether he is a man or a woman, whether he has just risen in the morning or is being beset with insomnia at midnight, or whether he is in Bali or in Antarctica.
This is because social media users have quickly learned not to trust images on-line, which are sometimes meant to disguise rather than reveal and which are most often borrowed from different sources.
On social media, a picture is not worth more than a thousand words. It's the words that always count, that can be analyzed and interpreted, and that bear lasting messages.
Imagine all my blogs with pictures only, for example.
And then imagine my blogs only with words.
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