Was it eroding the quality of their experiences? When you are not concerned with sharing every moment with hundreds (or thousands, or millions) of others, does the moment belong to you in a more profound way? Sometimes when we talk of Hollywood stars, we hypothesize that all of the pictures they’ve had taken of themselves, those posed for and those stolen, have somehow zapped them of an unquantifiable essence, like a distant cousin of what happens to the photographs themselves, which fade over time. If you share a picture of yourself eating pie, instead of simply enjoying the pie in real time,
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