Flash-mobification: On putting your life on YouTube
I had a great time with an engaging group of Christian educators and pastors in Austin last week, leading a workshop on Spirituality in the Smartphone Age. The folks were funny and thoughtful. They were also fans of technology and its power to connect and edify, so I didn’t have to fight against the “technology is terrible and it’s isolating us and killing our brains” thing you sometimes get. Instead we got to have a nuanced discussion about this world we now swim in. Read more about my approach to that conversation here.
One of our topics was the shifts around what is public and what is private/intimate, specifically the practice of choreographing and filming one’s milestone moments. We watched two videos. The first, Isaac and Amy’s famous wedding proposal:
