January Group Chat
A Return to Analog?
Happy Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God!
Ready to weigh in?
Each month I’ll post a “group chat” like this one on the first of the month to get your input! Then, on the final Sunday of every month I’ll share a voice note sharing your thoughts and mine on that month’s topic.
January Topic
Do you think it’s important for leading a faithful life to follow the growing “return to analog” trend this year?
If so, how do you plan to do that, or how are you already?
If you DON’T think it’s important, I’d love to hear about that too.
Click the “leave a comment” button and let’s think through this together!
So I’m of two minds. Do I spend too much time on social media. Yes. 100%, yes. And I got worse about it this Fall with morning sickness (turns out I am really bad at bearing sufferings and will do just about anything to block them out….) BUT!! And this is pretty important. Being in digital community with people like you, Bridget, has made such a huge impact on my faith life. Simply praying the Impossible Novena with you and the others in our group was an incredible experience. And having the accountability of the group definitely did help me to continue it for all nine months. So I think what I’ll be looking to do is spending more time creating for social media and less time just consuming. I realize to meet this goal I’ll need to outline a bit more of exactly what that looks like, but I think that’s what I’d like.
I’ve been wrestling with this. Here’s why… we are so unaware of how AI and the algorithm is shaping our behavior, no matter how intentional we claim to be. Simply the amount of time, our attention is taken from other things because it’s so addictive. It’s meant to do that, it’s a system built on hacking dopamine. There are psychologists behind the scenes who helped create it to do so. I simply don’t want to be a product and I want to keep my free will. I don’t know if it’s possible when addiction is used against me to shape my behaviors. It’s a question of dignity. If my free will is taken away, then so is my dignity.