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How To Devalue Your Life Experiences With Social Media – Forbes
“C’mon, Dad, hurry it up!” said every kid (ever) having his or her picture taken on a family vacation.
“Hold on,” Dad said, “I’ve almost got the lighting right…”
Little did Dad know that we might have been onto something as kids. Indeed, taking a picture changes something about an experience, doesn’t it? And the truth is that it absolutely can have a net positive impact on an experience, through the ability to relive the moment after the fact. But at the same time, the advent of social media has created a sure-fire way to devalue an experience through picture taking, too. First, some context:
As a financial advisor, I spend most of my time helping individuals and families align their financial capital in support of their priorities in life. But once we’ve done the important work of discerning and articulating what’s most important in life, wouldn’t we also want to ensure those values and goals are forming more than one’s financial capital—like labor capital (our jobs) and social capital (our reputation, legacy, and influence within our communities)?
And what about how we spend our scarcest resource—our time? Or that which has proven to be even more valuable than our stuff—our experiences?
Yes, we’ve learned that spending money on experiences generally incites more happiness than spending money on material goods. But there’s a sure-fire method for devaluing your experiences, too, through picture taking, and it might surprise you. How can we be sure to get less enjoyment from our experiences?
It’s simple: Take pictures of those experiences with the intent to promote the photos on social media.
Yes, you read that correctly. By taking a picture mid-experience with the intent of posting it on the Instagram or Facebook later, you’re actually reducing the enjoyment you’ll derive from that experience as it unfolds.
Or, as researchers put it in the Journal of Consumer Research, “Across two field and three laboratory studies, we find that relative to taking pictures for oneself (e.g., to preserve one’s memories), taking pictures with the intention to share them with others (e.g., to post on social media) reduces enjoyment of experiences.”
But why? “This effect occurs because taking photos with the intention to share increases self-presentational concern during the experience, which can reduce enjoyment directly, as well as indirectly by lowering engagement with the experience.”
In other words, we’re too concerned about how many likes we will—or heaven forbid, won’t—get on social media that we struggle to maximize happiness in the present moment. We’re too worried about whether or not we’ll look good in the depiction of the experience that we enjoy the experience, itself, less.
In addition to “self-presentational concern,” there may also be a time and space—or mindfulness—issue going on here. As Arthur Brooks and Ellen Langer, two Harvard profs, discussed in their podcast on mindfulness, while prospection (envisioning the future) and retrospection (considering the past) aren’t inherently bad, they are decidedly not mindful appreciation of the present.
So perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that if we’re anticipating what someone else will think in the future of our presentation of a past experience, that could lead to less enjoyment of that experience in the present.
That considered, I suppose we can let Dad off the hook, because he certainly didn’t have any intention of putting anything on social media with his 35-millimeter Nikon on our trip to Disney in 1989. Nor am I suggesting that you shouldn’t take that selfie at the concert that is finally happening after being rescheduled twice. But just know that you might enjoy the show a tad more if you keep that phone in your pocket.
The hype for Taylor Swift’s new album went into overdrive as it appeared to leak online two days ahead of its Friday release.
Swifties started sharing tracks on X that they claimed were from the singer’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, saying they came from a Google Drive link containing all 17 songs.
Some fans were upset by the leak and said they would wait until Friday to listen while others started frantically posting fake links on X to bury the “real” tracks.
“Raise your hand if ur an ACTUAL Taylor Swift fan and aren’t listening to leaks,” one user wrote.
Several media outlets reported that X briefly blocked the search term “Taylor Swift leak” on Wednesday.
CBC has reached out to Swift’s publicist for comment.
Swift announced the release, her 11th studio album and the first with all new songs since 2022’s Midnights, at the Grammy Awards ceremony in February.
Fans have been speculating about the lyrical themes that would appear on The Tortured Poets Department, based in part on a physical “library installation” that opened Tuesday in Los Angeles, curated with items that drop hints and references to the inspirations behind the album.
Swift’s 2022 album Midnights, which featured the hit Anti-Hero, also leaked online ahead of its scheduled release date, and went on to win the Grammy for album of the year. Swift’s previous albums 1989, Reputation and Lover also leaked ahead of their official releases.
The singer is in the midst of her billion-dollar-grossing Eras tour, which is moving through the U.S. and is scheduled to conclude in Vancouver in December.
Swift was added to Forbes magazine’s annual new billionaires list earlier this month, with Forbes saying she was the first musician to become a billionaire based solely on her songs and performances.
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Taylor Swift's new album allegedly 'leaked' on social media and it's causing a frenzy – CTV News
Social media can be a divisive place, but even more so when it comes to Taylor Swift.
A Google Drive link allegedly containing 17 tracks that are purportedly from Swift’s eagerly awaited “The Tortured Poets Department” album has been making the rounds on the internet in the past day and people are equal parts mad, sad and happy about it.
CNN has reached out to Swift’s representative for comment.
The actual album is slated to drop at midnight Friday, but the claimed leak is both being hailed and nailed by Swift’s supporters.
One person shared a drawing of a young woman asleep in a sparkly bed with sparkly blankets on X, writing, “How I slept last night knowing I’m going to hear TTPD for the very first time tonight cause I haven’t listened to any leaks.”
Yet another person posted a video of two models walking and wrote, “Me and my bestie on our way to listen to #TSTTPD leaks.”
On Thursday, “Taylor Swift leaks” was a prevented search phrase on X.
The general consensus among those who have decided to be “leak free” appears to be that they are the true Swifties – as her hard core fan base is known – because they don’t believe the singer would have sanctioned such a “leak.”
Swift herself has gone to great lengths to prevent unintended early releases in the past.
“I have a lot of maybe, maybe-not-irrational fears of security invasion, wiretaps, people eavesdropping,” Swift said of her music during an 2014 appearance on” Jimmy Kimmel Live.” She added that her “1989” album only existed on her phone, “covered in cat stickers and the volume buttons don’t work very well because there’s candy stuck in there,” for nearly two years.
“The Tortured Poets Department” is Swift’s 11th album and comes after she became the first woman and only solo artist to win the Grammy for album of the year three times.
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