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             Capturing vs. Experiencing the Moment

  

by Ben West and Sean Huntley

News Editor and Graphic Designer

    “SEAN HAROLD HUNTLEY: Writing an El Gato article right now, lulz.” How often do we find ourselves compelled to inform the world on how we are doing instead of just experiencing it? When was the last time you did something incredible, and it did not end up as a photo album?
    It seems we are living through our experiences instead of living in them. Without even realizing it, we have fallen into a habit of feeding every event, every decision, every moment into one giant documentary. Social networking has become our motive. Everything we used to do for the sake of doing it, we now do to maintain our online identities. Maybe we are afraid that if we stop putting up our status updates, stop uploading our photo albums, stop commenting on anything and everything, our online identity will disappear.

Do not get me wrong — being able to tell all our friends how we are feeling at once is great, but perhaps we are missing the point. Talking through electronic mediums is not the same as speaking with someone face to face. For instance, a text message is a great way to compartmentalize an idea into no more than two-hundred and fifty characters. It is a great way to throw information out there, but something is lost in translation...(read more)