{"id":13741,"date":"2025-03-18T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-one-place-on-social-media-that-still-feels-human\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:02:37","slug":"the-one-place-on-social-media-that-still-feels-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-one-place-on-social-media-that-still-feels-human\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Place on Social Media That Still Feels Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier this year, I was thumbing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a \u201cfire piano\u201d for sale. I clicked the listing expecting that \u201cfire\u201d meant \u201ccool,\u201d but found something far more literal: a pyrotechnic piano, MacGyvered to spit flames from its top whenever a player tickled the keys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the brief description that accompanied the post, the California-based seller recounted how he had been hand-building the piece until \u201can injury took him out of the shop.\u201d He was now asking $2,000 for the piano, which he considered 90 percent complete. That this artist was thwarted from realizing his freaky vision left me both astonished and strangely melancholy. I spent the rest of that night wondering if he grew up tinkering with pianos, and if he missed the process of making them. For a moment I even considered asking him what this remarkable piece would look like if he\u2019d seen it through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I\u2019ve been parsing other people\u2019s wares since before Facebook Marketplace debuted in 2016. I often venture to Los Angeles flea markets, thrift shops and swap meets tucked away in high school parking lots, drive-in movie theaters and enigmatic storefronts. I\u2019ll stop by estate sales on weekends to comb through things like chess-piece-molding kits from the 1970s and miniature cocktail shakers. I\u2019m more drawn to the aura surrounding these objects, and the stories I imagine they might tell, than I am the objects themselves. An afternoon spent roaming an estate sale nurtures my curiosity about the items that make a life, what retains significance as time flickers by and what people choose to let go of as their surroundings change and they do, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A similar impulse took me to Facebook Marketplace, yet to call it a digital thrift shop underplays how unique and bizarre the platform is. Facebook proper isn\u2019t the best prism through which to consider someone\u2019s existence, but its Marketplace application still yields surprises rather than serving up \u2014 or, at least, <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">only<\/em> serving up \u2014 algorithmic slop. It provides me with the stories I can imagine only when I\u2019m browsing through shops. Marketplace is distinct in that these oddities aren\u2019t typically divorced from their contexts: The sellers\u2019 descriptions can range from explaining, say, what brought 68 pairs of salt and pepper shakers into their lives, or why they were parting with an action figure of a random jacked guy (the seller apparently thought the toy was Dwayne [the Rock] Johnson when he bought it).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ephemera populating Facebook Marketplace has transformed a corner of the network into a locus of awe, perhaps even delight. In this way, my habit of scrolling through Facebook Marketplace isn\u2019t just an enhancement of the in-person thrifting experience. To gaze upon its fundamental weirdness is almost a form of time travel, a callback to the whimsy that defined the Web 1.0 era. These quirky offerings are the sorts of things you would expect from a place like Stumbleupon \u2014 a bygone site from the internet of yore featuring a button that, when clicked, took you to a random website. The items on Facebook Marketplace are jumbled together so haphazardly that they remind me of the lawless tumble of images that graced GeoCities\u2019 pages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a millennial who recalls how fun the nascent internet could be, it\u2019s a relief to find something that feels reminiscent of that time. It serves me such strange juxtapositions as a stunning midcentury amber glass \u201cswag lamp\u201d to immediately follow a \u201cunique wallet\u201d featuring pleather wrinkles forming a terrifying face. This anarchic display is like gazing into someone\u2019s hallway closet rammed with tchotchkes they couldn\u2019t find another place for. It\u2019s precisely where slivers of humanity emerge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one listing, a seller was getting rid of chic lamps, couches, lounge chairs and a dining table amid an ongoing divorce. In the caption he explained needing to \u201csell everything off and split the proceeds.\u201d \u201cAll items are in great shape and have been well taken care of,\u201d he went on. \u201cBe kind, it\u2019s been hard.\u201d Another listing, featuring a baseball cap emblazoned with the words \u201cShit Show Supervisor,\u201d was described as a gift from the seller\u2019s son: \u201cSingle parenting at its finest.\u201d (As if to ward off any depressing implications, he reassured potential buyers that the hat was a fun one.) Listings like these have made me consider how items can become charged with memories we cherish, however difficult they were at the time we were experiencing them; and how giving up these objects can feel like mourning parts of ourselves that we are forced to dilute or leave behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By staring into this cabinet of chaos, I\u2019ve learned about the bizarre objects that make up a life. I\u2019ve tumbled down the rabbit hole of obsolete furnishings, like gossip chairs. But these dives have mostly made me sit with the reality that, because of limited money or space, or personal disagreements, we must sometimes give up things we cherish \u2014 but those items\u2019 significance can at least be passed on to someone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I\u2019ve ended up buying just two items from Facebook Marketplace: a marble coffee table and a plush recliner. But purchasing items there is almost beside the point. It turns out that I don\u2019t really want to buy a cheeseburger-shaped lamp. 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