Looking back… from Max, #16: "Facebook? Another window into, another lens for understanding who we are and how we live. I have a few FB friends, folks I’ve never met (in person), who have become a lively and engaging presence in my life. Swear to Christ, these folks have given me such pleasure; it’s like an approved and sanctioned voyeurism. We’re granted access, and we’re able to glimpse the back and forths of people who know each other, people who dig, care about, poke, make fun of, slap each other around, make each other laugh. And you find yourself wanting to enter the fray, and then you stop, realizing the access that has been given is a kind of privilege. You have your particular connection to this person, but not their in-group, and so you begin to appreciate how large your world has become. Private worlds rarely shared with or seen by others, now online and accessible; no need to buy a ticket to these real-life events—theatre set pieces, farces, comedies, dramas played out in wall posts, comments and likes. Each of us with an in-group where we’re comfortable making it up, jerking people around, getting rowdy and playful. I think the trick is to take none of it seriously. Did you see Betty White’s monologue on Saturday Night Live? Just crazed and hilarious. There was a flipping Facebook movement to have her host. You have to laugh, you have to have a sense of humor. But of course this is serious. Our world has changed, in profound and intimate ways. Just login and cruise. Nexus and varying contexts, so diverse and riotous. Music, film, art, stand-up comedy, needed information, political action, all instantaneously shared with a link. Widespread blogging, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr; we’re all right in the middle of Shirky’s historical moment and I’m not sure we fully appreciate how grand, glorious and groundbreaking it is." apartinthemidstof/current-probe-goad/2010/10/11/16-technologic.html youtube/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:43:57 +0000
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