“On the Internet, nobody knows you´re a dog” – Av Peter Steiner, publicerad i The New Yorker 1993 (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20).
Läste just en mycket intressant artikel som diskuterar kring Facebook och hur de sociala nätverken har förändrat våra sätt att interagera, kommunicera – ja, till och med betrakta livet.
Artikeln, Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” (The New York Times), beskriver hur beteenden har vuxit fram i de sociala nätverken. Riktigt spännande att följa skribentens bild av utvecklingen och dess konsekvenser
Tre utvalda citat:
“This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.” (källa)
“This is the ultimate effect of the new awareness: It brings back the dynamics of small-town life, where everybody knows your business.” (källa)
“Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act…(…) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they’re trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.” (källa)
Alltså, är du en hund är det numera svårt att låssas vara någonting annat i nätets sociala världar…
