I’ve always been someone who has lived and worked predominantly online and now I’m joined by the whole world. Part of the new way of living within a global pandemic are physical and social distancing and lock downs, working and studying from home all of which brings more of us into online spaces.
While the streets remain silent, the pandemic creates white noise.
Different platforms bring their own unique personalities and culture of engagement. Like everyone else, I use a lot of different platforms and curate and share various fragments appropriate to the platform. Twitter traditionally was a favourite. I was drawn to the text based character limit, the micro poetics of a constrained space, the alchemy of a Perfect Tweet.
Further along in Twitter’s evolution and as someone who is often through work physically away from my family and close friends, I began to use Twitter also as a news source. Particularly for following updates and links from around the world and personal first-hand accounts beyond the core media outlets.
Over the past few years Twitter has become more shouty. As an ambivert with insights into introversion, I understand completely the value of a platform such as Twitter to provide quiet people with a voice. Lately though, in the tides of the pandemic as we learn new ways of communicating, working and playing and in many cases, surviving, Twitter is super yelly.
As part of this research project, Sanctuary, I have began over a period of a month (or so) to daily post a Tweet based in Love. I am creating my own virus to soothe the world.