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About People Who Sign Their Name At The Bottom of Social Media Posts
Can you tell I wrote this? — Audrey
Are you truly delighted when people who you consider to be otherwise thoughtful, mentally sharp humans engage in the at best duplicative and at worst daftly ignorant act of signing their own name to something written in any public form already earmarked as coming from them?
Back in the later aughts when Facebook went from a sparsely populated college town — how awkward it was and self-absorbed it seemed in those days to ask a roommate to take your profile pic! — to a big box supermarket populated with everyone’s relatives, hardly was it surprising when not everyone above a certain age was savvy to new linguistic practices.
“HI BRANDON THIS IS YOUR MOM’S FRIEND LISA, HOW DO I POST AN ARTICLE ON CATS I WANT TO SEND YOU — LISA” was all too common a trope at that time, despite the fact that next to anything a Lisa would have posted sat Lisa’s icon. Could Lisa not see her own icon? Did Lisa not realize everyone could see her post and her icon?
But we’re eighteen years past the launch of Zuckerberg’s misogynist engine; and have had Orkut, MySpace, Friendster, Twitter, Instagram, ello, Snapchat, and TikTok to train us in the standard protocol of comprehending that everything we publish will by…
