31 January 2008

How Facebook Exposed Us All as Freaks

Please excuse me while I have a little tidy up. This blog post is in the process of being shunted over to my company blog.

Please head over there to read & comment on this post:
www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/how-facebook-exposed-us-all-as-freaks.

A beautifully written, funny, cynical take on how social sites are ripping apart our carefully constructed online personae.

The Internet permits the happy fracture of our messy selves into more acceptable (or at least internally consistent) personae…

Soc-sites are in the business of assembling a full picture of the meatspace you, using the crumbs you’ve dropped on MySpace, Match, and Megarotic until Humpty Dumpty is put together again.

Wired

I say embrace the concept of meatspace you online, surely it’s only us digital immigrants who feel so uncomfortable about it?

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