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When social media documentation overtakes genuine group experience

Our book club spends more time taking photos of ourselves with the books and posting about our meetings than we do actually discussing what we read and I think we've become more invested in looking intellectual than being curious together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The desire to capture and broadcast shared meaning destroys the conditions necessary for meaning to emerge.

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