If you’ll allow me to romanticize a reseller platform operated by a publicly traded company for a moment, I’ve come to see Facebook Marketplace as a catalog of human transition. An object up for resale is its owner trapped between a life lived and a life to be lived. A set of nesting measuring cups is the mourning of a dead relative, a twin bed the welcoming of a new lover. The crab cannot leave its almost-vacant shell until someone new agrees to fill it with life.
the 'escape prompt' is just gold 💎
If you’ll allow me to romanticize a reseller platform operated by a publicly traded company for a moment, I’ve come to see Facebook Marketplace as a catalog of human transition. An object up for resale is its owner trapped between a life lived and a life to be lived. A set of nesting measuring cups is the mourning of a dead relative, a twin bed the welcoming of a new lover. The crab cannot leave its almost-vacant shell until someone new agrees to fill it with life.
👆 This is so well put!