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How The Episode of “Black Mirror” About Those Pesky “Notifications” Gives The Worst View of Our Lives
Spoilers ahead!
We all remember the very first time we were “notified” about our relevancy at that particular moment, and for me, it was back in the summer of 2012, when after about 4 years of consistent engagement on Twitter, I was abruptly thrown into the fast-track lane of the hard lessons that can’t be learned without the cancellations of an entire community of cancellers.
Of course 7 years later, and the landscape of social graces has evolved into the graceless wiring of dysfunctional valves, that are stimulated by the exceptionally foul-mouthed of the bunch.
When my popularity soared on that steaming hot afternoon in June, it was due to the ill-advised essay I wrote about the untimely death of a popular writer, who was beloved by the culture of hip-hop, thanks to her seductive essays and novels that brilliantly captured the palatable genius of that memorable era.
As a cautious engager, who still harbored the desire for life-altering exposure on an app that seemed to possess all the tools for over-night success, tweeting the…
