- [[{1.2a2d} time collapse]] argues that social media *collapses* our identities and [[{1.2a1a} social media removes agency in our identity performance|performance]] into a nonlinear “lifelog” of posts. - I already believe that [[{1.2a1} social media requires fragmentation and decontextualization of our identities]] - However, I’m curious how this connects to life-archiving… - ==Am I collecting context? Or am I collapsing it? == - [[2024-12-12]] Weird thread to bring in here, but reading [this issue](https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-sort-of-reverse-online-radicalization?_bhlid=3ee8b303c82ced3e89a936094adb8053d484740a&last_resource_guid=Post%3Ac5ecb518-df4e-49c4-b17a-39e92276e3f9&utm_campaign=a-sort-of-reverse-online-radicalization&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.garbageday.email) of Garbage Day and Ryan writes about [[Mangione, Luigi]]’s digital footprint: > he was a 26-year-old living in 2024, where every young person has a bizarre and incongruous data stream full of post-4chan right-wing gibberish and pop culture context collapse that has followed them around since birth. -