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Half the story

Illustration Everywhere we look we now have better and simpler platforms to tell our stories.  But do we use these tools to tell the full story? Most of these tools give us some form of feedback about the story; likes, shares, upvotes, retweets, pins, views, … Also, these platforms rely on those very pieces of feedback to bring stories to us. There begins a race; to tell a story for its own sake or for it be heard by as many as possible? Or rather a battle between do i tell only those stories which people like to hear or do i narrate everything, the truth? Life is largely boring; if reality TV actually depicted reality, you’d see people reading email, being stuck in traffic, waiting in queues, … Yet, some peoples lives according to their online personas seem like the most fantastic fairy tale filled with joy and adventure.` This bias against the mundane pervades not just online platforms but also scientific research.  So whats the bottomline? Do i want to you tweet the no. of eggs you had for breakfast in pursuit of full disclosure? NO. That would be generating noise instead of signal. Do i want to you only share peer-reviewed research of great scientific depth? NO. Stop being boring; do share those things if they’re relevant to you though! What the f**k do you want me to do? “Karm karo, Phal ki chinta mat karo”  And remember, “Half truth is full lies”