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One morning in 2016 in Phnom Penh, I was out looking for breakfast, photographing the ladies doing Tai Chi on the river walk as the sun rose, and tweeting the pics. I realized I was at a strange distance, not immersed in the moment of the light and the humidity and the motion of these ladies movements, because I was too busy documenting it and relaying it all to twitter. What, I asked myself, was all this sharing doing?

This is a brilliant essay by @Daojoan Please read.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-observer-effect-and-social-media-how-constant-observation-warps-us-all/