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Facebook—and MySpace, and Twitter, and whatever we're stampeding for next—are just the latest stages of a long attenuation. They've accelerated the fragmentation of consciousness, but they didn't initiate it. They have reified the idea of universal friendship, but they didn't invent it. In retrospect, it seems inevitable that once we decided to become friends with everyone, we would forget how to be friends with anyone. We may pride ourselves today on our aptitude for friendship—friends, after all, are the only people we have left—but it's not clear that we still even know what it means. -
1voteAt one time (and I’m old enough to remember this), it seemed as if everyone feared the Internet’s scope and potency. It held powerful secrets, from Social Security numbers to conspiracy theories. And it’s still a reckless place, largely governed by schadenfreude (TMZ) or voyeurism (Fmylife). Meanwhile, Facebook is a non-anonymous (hence tightly controlled) fantasy land. While the Internet unmasks, Facebook can gloss over, trading honesty for fake intimacy -- exhibitionism flirting with normal social restraint.
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1voteTurkle talks about 2 jobs of adolescence - autonomy (defining boundaries of self) & intimacy - & how they are impacted by digital media. Always on connectivity makes autonomy difficult, & true intimacy may be undermined b/c teens use tech to avoid the risks involved in confronting others f2f. Turkle also notes that Erikson said teens need stillness for reflection in order to form their identities.
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1voteDoes this technology, with its constant demands to collect (friends and status), and perform (by marketing ourselves), in some ways undermine our ability to attain what it promises—a surer sense of who we are and where we belong? The Delphic oracle’s guidance was know thyself. Today, in the world of online social networks, the oracle’s advice might be show thyself.
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1vote“Holden is somewhat a victim of the current trend in applying ever more mechanistic approaches to understanding human behavior,” Ms. Feinberg wrote in an e-mail message. “Compared to the early 1950s, there is not as much room for the adolescent search, for intuition, for empathy, for the mystery of the unconscious and the deliverance made possible through talking to another person.”
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1voteIntimacy, as legal scholar Charles Fried put it, is the moral capital we give to those we love. By broadcasting personal information to these social clearinghouses, we're squandering our privacy, the very quality that creates intimacy.
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