Jennifer Lowther (Vancouverite and on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other social networking sites) quoted in a National Post article:
"I have definitely found that my online life is now bleeding into my personal life.... People I have never met follow me on Twitter and they know me, and they expect me to know who they are."
Managing multi online profiles ("The average Canadian has seven online profiles, according to Microsoft Canada research") can be tricky. Living online has its drawbacks. The article points out several:
no secrets: "You can meet a girl or a boy and before you've had your first or second date, you know who they have been with, who was their last boyfriend or girlfriend - it makes for interesting conversations."
a type of curfew: "If I don't upload a photo on Flickr, or update Twitter for two days, people send out a rescue party," Krug (Kris - Vancouver photographer and member of multi social sites) said. "I don't want my digital life to be the entirety of my identity."
dossiers: "It's also leading to a 24/7 surveillance that would make spies look like mere slouches. We are assembling the kind of dossiers that most intelligence agencies would kill for and we are doing it without them lifting a finger .... I'm not suggesting this is going to be some massive Big Brother conspiracy, but it requires a little bit of thought - how much of our lives are we revealing and how much do we want to reveal?"- Rob Cottingham - Social Signal
Read all of "Twitter, Facebook beget the 'social chameleon' and self-surveillance."
My feelings on the subject:
Why I don’t twitter
What are you doing?
What am I doing?
Who needs to know
I’m currently contemplating
another trip to the fridge
and all that coffee
has sent me to the bathroom
gazillion times?
I don’t care
that you heard from your big-name agent
are over-the-top excited
and just posted to your blog
Tweet tweet
Scratch that trip to the fridge
I’m going outside
where it’s spring
and I can listen to the birds
twitter back and forth
What a return flight
First dibs on this tree
I’ve found true love!
Tweet tweet
© 2009 by Violet Nesdoly
1 comments:
K I just signed up for twitter but I don't get it. Don't think it's for me. I am fully addicted to Facebook though... it's bad :(
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