Person Media
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❞ If you keep gazing at your inspiration, you could become a genius. ~ me
@personmedia @personmediastart
Starting a journey to fix loneliness. Not building another social app — building Person Media. First question: What if your online identity wasn’t a profile, but a person? 🧵
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I’m Nigerian — and growing up, depression wasn’t something we deeply understood. In nursing school, it showed up in textbooks like hypertension or malaria: “a condition… treated with medication.” Simple. Clinical. Detached.
Until I left home.
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Traveling and working as a nurse, I discovered a truth that broke my heart: depression is often rooted in loneliness — and loneliness doesn’t respond to medication. It responds to presence.
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I’ve seen loneliness in busy cities, crowded trains, silent cafés. Everyone “connected,” yet everyone alone. Personal space turned into emotional walls. The walls turned normal. The normal turned unhealthy.
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And social media? It took those walls and added an algorithm. So instead of reaching for each other, we reach for screens. We scroll. We perform. We disappear. Presence replaced by content. Humanity replaced by feeds.
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Then something strange happened — the moment that pulled me back to my idea.
One day, I got home from work and found a big card slipped into my mailbox. A list of services from someone in the area:
- Home tidying
- Dishwashing
- Errands
But the last item stopped me in my tracks:
Companionship.
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It was written in Finnish — I don’t even know the exact word now — but the meaning was clear: spending time with someone.
Someone had listed companionship as an actual service.
I froze. Bag still on my back. Winter jacket still on. Just standing in my room, gazing at the card.
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In that moment, a thought hit me:
“If you keep gazing at your inspiration, you could become a genius.”
And that card was a sign. A reminder. A push.
Person Media suddenly made even more sense.
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Because companionship — real human presence — is missing everywhere. We don’t need more posts. We don’t need more content. We need each other.
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That’s why Person Media exists: A digital world that starts online… and eventually flows naturally offline. A world where the person is the medium. Where presence replaces performance. Where relationships have meaning and structure. Where time with people actually counts.
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And the first prototype is the World Calendar — a live map of human presence, not content.
- Yesterday’s mood
- Today’s presence
- Tomorrow’s companionship windows
A gentle reminder that humanity is still here — just harder to see.
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So yes — this is the beginning of a four-year public journey. I’m building Person Media openly, slowly, honestly.
Because I’ve met loneliness face-to-face. And I’m not willing to let it keep winning.
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Say hi to Person Media. A new kind of world — starting first online. Built for presence. Built for companionship. Built for humanity.
More soon.
Before you go — I’m curious:
- Have you ever experienced a moment that made you rethink loneliness or connection?
- When did you first notice that digital connection wasn’t real connection?
- What’s one moment in your life that made you realize how powerful real presence or companionship can be?