#Microblog Monday 489: Words or Pictures

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Neil Kramer always makes me think. He recently had a public Facebook post about the power of words vs. pictures. He writes:

People never get offended by my photos, but if I use the wrong word or phrase, people go crazy. This is nothing surprising. If I hold up a photo of a fire in a crowded theater, no one will care. But if I yell “fire, all hell breaks loose. Words have the power.

It made me think about how I’ve certainly been emotionally impacted by an image shared in someone’s feed, but I’ve never unfollowed someone on social media due to an image. Words, yes, I remove people from my feed due to their words, but not because they posted a particular picture. Neil’s point is larger: we stop taking in the information in the image when we focus on accompanying words because the words are more powerful than the image.

It may not hold true in every case, but in a general sense, it’s interesting to consider.

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