Food for Thought

What do our social media feeds say about us? If we were sitting in a courtroom, not charged with anything, but simply a judge perusing our posts and comments (even the ones deleted), what kind of opinion would that judge form? We hide behind the false comfort of our keyboards slamming letters that turn into words that we believe the world would be better off if we shared. In this country we experience extraordinary rights, we can literally post what we want. (Though, the positives and negatives of that very act are playing out in the US Congress as I type.) We can, in the short term, generate a false sense of social media identity. However, over time the falsity becomes harder and harder to maintain as our true selves overtake our feeds. If our weekly shares and posts and comments were blasted in a public square with us standing right next to them facing the people we were commenting about, to, and opinions laid bare would we still hit send? Many a proverb is dedicated to the use of words. They mostly sum up to; use many words you reveal yourself a fool, use fewer and you are wise. How many of our social media feeds reveal ourselves wise?