Algorithmic

“That way, in that timeline, in the timeline of Instagram, if you’ll pardon the pun, she didn’t actually die, she just hasn’t posted in a while.
She forgot her password, maybe.
Social media’s weird like that.
Somehow it just feels so current.
Something about it just feels so alive,
maybe because elsewhere on the app everything is happening, people are constantly posting, liking, updating, there’s just this buzz to it that makes me think she might still be on the other side of some screen I just can’t reach,
like if I left a new comment now she might still reply, she might still exist in some online consciousness.”