There is a common and valid complaint that websites like Facebook and Twitter (and newer, cooler iterations as yet unexplored by this irrelevance-embracing 43-year-old) subtly encourage us to become brand managers of ourselves, presenting only our most attractive facades, posting an endless series of praiseworthy and admirable actions and images, but how is this anything other than same as it ever was? Almost no one leaves the house unarmored and without considering how best to present a relatively unobjectionable self and those who cant or wont do so end up sleeping in doorways or eventually praised as fearless truth-tellers or both. A narrowly curated Facebook you is just the internet version of not throwing punches at the party, or ogling semi-feral packs of teenage girls at bus stops, or telling your boss to shove it up his ass sideways. If we didnt blunt our impulses our social spaces would make Escape From New York look like an episode of The Teletubbies.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:38:04 +0000
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