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Refashioning oneself, and embarking on changes that sometimes require you to cut loose parts of your past (either temporarily or permanently), is a form of growth. And I feel like so many of the innovations involving technology and persona being put forth right now are being fashioned by people with myopic “everything is great right now and will be that way forever” outlooks, and that they don’t really have any sense of what life beyond their VC-funded Silicon Valley privileged existences might be like.

Maura Johnston (via couch)

Emphasis on privileged existences. I’m counted among those. I lead an incredibly blessed life and feel free to express and record my life and intimate thoughts within the public eye. I’ve nothing to be ashamed of or hide.

But Maura points out that this isn’t always the case. Life throws curveballs. There are things that happen to people that disrupt the path they’re on and can be incredible challenges that need to be addressed and recovered from in private. With this perspective in mind, forgiveness and forgetfulness, having their places in society, need to be considered and designed for in “social” apps, especially one like Facebook Timeline, which is so focused on cataloging the minutiae of our day-to-day lives, which aren’t always puppy dogs and ice cream.

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