What’s The Current Vision For Social Media?

p>What drives the form, style and content in social media today? And what forces will shape and determine its future?

It appears that, despite being surrounded by new technologies on many fronts, the wash on the canvas is same old, same old: profit, gain, popularity, etc–the things that feed ego, not soul.

I think this is the vision that emerges from the marriage between science and commerce. Science is blind to inner reality and commerce has a money fetish that no one seems to be able to remedy.

Yes, the marriage between science and commerce has accomplished great things on some levels. But its dark side is that it gives rise to dumb and meaningless appetites at the expense of what really matters in life.

What matters is knowing how to create and live a life with real depth and meaning as well as a loving connection to ourselves and to others.

What direction can social media take to enable and empower us, alone and together, to craft a life that can be well lived, loved and understood?

How can social media serve to awaken us to the deeper levels of life, levels from which we could better understand and fulfill our obligation to ensure the survival of our species?