How I Appear To People On Faceboook

It occurs to me, though I see it differently, that most people who see my posts on social media do not "see" a difference between me and a person posting about their break-up or bad restaurant service.

It must be the case that most people that encounter my posts have the same feeling toward them that I do toward people that post about their daily life. A good majority of these posts are slogans that represent the poster's emotions about something in their everyday life. A break-up, a fight with a friend or family member, etc. Even though I don't see my own posts in this way, I am starting to think others do.

It has in the past seemed to me that nobody would confuse my creation of a "social philosophy" with regular social media tropes. I believe this thinking on my part is probably dead wrong.

When most people encounter my posts and links they have the identical experience as I do when I see, for example, some kind of religious statement from a normal person (not a seminarian, that might at least be entertaining).

Think about that feeling you have when you see whatever uncritical and uneducated social commentary or emotional outburst on any platform - it is probably some kind of scorn. Why do they waste their time? Do they think people are listening? That kind of thing.

I am painfully aware that that kind of feeling is exactly what most people have when they see my stuff even in a cursory way and then move on. Does that guy think people are listening?

I am aware of all this. Does it make it better to be aware? I am not sure.