From the article, questions of how embedded social media is to our lives are raised. Eggers & the Data & Society Research Institute narratively reveal how social media is used as a tool to express emotions, feelings, and experiences. They also reveal the drift in opinion about the importance of social media. The article portrays how different segments of the society perceive the use of social media. A large percentage of users seem to reveal most of their social, professional, and private lives on social media. On the other side, a small percentage does not regard the use of social media to ‘array’ neither their private nor their social lives. In the text, Mae who is an employee is under question and scrutiny on how she uses the hours she is away from work. Despite her exemplary performance at work, her colleagues find her social media life ‘worryingly quiet.’
On an instance, Mae says that her dad was sick and she spent a lot of her free time taking care of him. However, there is no post or comment on her social media about the incident. The same is applied when she says she does a lot of Kayaking yet there is no proof in any of her social media activities. This reading sensitized me to be careful on the kind of stuff I post on my social media. Mae’s colleagues cannot trace the events of her personal life through her social media posts. From this, I deduce that people can track the activity of an individual’s social media to understand one’s personality. This means that we should be cautious about what we put on our social media since it can be used for us or against us. I feel that Mae is justified to keep her personal life off social media, and even though it could have been used on this instance to validate her Kayaking and dad’s illness, the same criteria could have been applied in a different situation to ‘crucify’ her.
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Reference
Eggers, D. (2013). The Circle: The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
