It’s amazing how a person can define a persons’ identity without even meting them, although their characteristics can play a major role too! I like to call this type of greeting, “cyber relationship.” In out textbook Baym, describes new relationships that are formed online every day. How can you form a relationship without meeting a person or shaking their hand? With the help of technology anything is possible. In the reading Turkle, describes humans as, “learning to see ourselves as plugged-in-technobodies” (Turkle). The internet is taking over the world even in our love life.lol Human beings identity has become multiplicity. People who use the internet are capable of building themselves to whatever and whoever they want be. The problem is, it becomes manipulative and unfair to the person whom is sharing their real identity (if one is sharing). Turkle explains how some people are able to go months without meting a person and still carry on an intimacy relationship. People are usually able to do this through a virtual chat session. One virtual social network is MUD (multi-user dungeons), this site allows you to meet and collaborate with different people within a room something like Twitter,Facebook, and MySpace. My blogger main focus everyday is minding someones' business. He has a creative style, post pictures and videos, and shows varies of interviews about today's relationships even the ones online. Freddy O has been around for a while and yet is the only non-celebrity that gets all the celebrities pictures. Can we say nosy lol. I hope he doesn't catch me stalking his twitter page or i'll be in social network jail!lol
So true, we are aching for companionship, and we will go to any measure to be ACCEPTED! You said it right Treaonna, how can we call a person from the internet a friend, and we have not seen a face or heard a voice? Sounds like a cry out for missing love. Not only the teenagers are guilty of doing this, the adults are as well.
ReplyDeleteYou are almost talking like there is an internet paparazzi. Well, you are absolutely right about that! We even provide the information to them. Pictures, journals, confessions, and more. If it is companionship we long for, why are we making our lives so public that it is too public? One person vs. the world.
ReplyDeleteTreaonna your post reminded me of the movie Catfish! Have you seen it? It's about a guy who meets a girl online and begins an online relationship with her, her older sister, and her mother. When he goes searching for her he finds out she wasnt being completely truthful about who she is and who her family is. He shared real details about his life and thought that they were doing the same. It is very easy to trick someone online and make them think you are someone other than who you really are.
ReplyDeleteWhat stood out to me in your post is the word unfair. I do think it is unfair that people can manipulate their readers so much. I also feel like more and more of the weight of the responsibility lies on the reader. If there is someone out there promising they are something it is really unfair to come down on them for creating a false internet identify if the other person is dumb enough to believe them. :)
ReplyDeleteNo Mandy I have to see it! lol
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