We are literally living in a pandemic, it’s necessary to check up on each other.
This is what our blog is promoting. Presenting our Pandemic Diaries: While we were on lockdown. Flip through its pages and see how we have our own ways of coping. One’s sentimental of her last street adventures, another is making up to those she wasn’t able to bond with due to her busyness, another is making wild guesses about how the world is going to be in the remaining months of the year, and one is just letting off some steam with all that’s going on. Regardless of whatever you’re doing to make sense of all this, it’s okay. The whole world is yet to make sense of it, either.
The group promoted the blog in a platform where people frequently post how they’ve been: Instagram. Facebook is a website for memes and familial interactions, Twitter is the voice of movements, whilst Instagram is… a diary.
Upon sharing our stories to our followers, I first realized that our theme is a substantial initiative in normalizing the fact that we have our own ways of coping. There’s no shame in eating, binging The Office, or just crying it all out. Second, Instagram is the best platform because people are much more unfiltered there. On Facebook, people are a bit unfiltered because their families are there. Twitter these days, as mentioned, has been a platform for movements like #HijaAko and #BlackLivesMatter– which will make our initiative out of place. Whilst fighting a pandemic, or a civil rights movement, it’s important to ask the most basic questions: How are you?
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Sonder. 