I'm finding it interesting that people, are 'safely relating' through the internet in a certain respect, and revealing themselves through blogs, facebook, myspace, e-mails, etc...
And how they come across in person is either fabricated, hidden behind their personality, or totally different from who they present themselves as a presence via the Internet.
Would I say things differently if there was no text/e-mails/blogs/etc...?
I think there's a fair argument to say that there's a time and place for everything, and an
appropriateness to it all.
Texting can be ultra casual. So much nuances of people and what is being said is lost through texting.
E-mail is fair game - it can be personal/business
Facebook and Myspace should really be just fun and play, and
blogging an inspirational notebook posted publicly.
I'm not holding strong to this, as I'm just exploring this conversation with myself.
I'd love to hear any feedback about what others think of this.
(hmm not sure my post copied from facebook. will type it in later...)
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I think that writing just like photography is kind of a medium to express the nuances about yourself that not everybody gets....if you think about what you're writing and where you're writing it etc etc. you killed the spark of the message ( unless it's got some specific intention..like getting people to buy something or giving them information)...it doesn' t ever matter where you write.. face book ..my space.. a packet of matches...on the glass of your windshield after you've breathed on it...just write it somewhere..maybe it's not about you ..maybe it's a message you have for somone else..and if you over think it ..you miss the window of opportunity and they don't get it....messages are everywhere...and more often than not...right where you're the least likely to look for them..ECRIT !!!
ReplyDeleteBullseye. I got that!
ReplyDeletea quote i stole about strangers and civility from liquid modernity (a good read):
ReplyDelete“in Richard Sennett’s classic definition, a city is ‘a human settlement in which strangers are likely to meet.” . . . . Strangers meet in a fashion that befits strangers; a meeting of strangers is unlike the meetings of kin, friends or acquaintances – it is, by comparison, a mis-meeting.
In the meeting of strangers there is no picking up at the point where the last encounter stopped, no filling in on in the interim trials and tribulations or joys and delights, no shared recollections; nothing to fall back on and to go by in the course of the present encounter.
The meeting of strangers is an event without a past. More often than not, it is also an event without a future (it is expected to be, hope to be, free of a future), a story most certainly ‘not to be continued’, a one-off chance, to be consummated in full while it lasts and on the spot, without delay without putting the unfinished business off to another occasion.”
he goes on to describe that urban living calls for civility:
"the activity which protects people from each other and yet allows them to enjoy each other's company. Wearing a mask is the essence of civility. Masks permit pure sociability, detached from the circumstances of power, malaise, and private feelings of those who wear them. Civility has as its aim the shielding of others from being burdened with oneself."
"The meeting of strangers is an event without a past. More often than not, it is also an event without a future (it is expected to be, hope to be, free of a future), a story most certainly ‘not to be continued’, a one-off chance, to be consummated in full while it lasts and on the spot, without delay without putting the unfinished business off to another occasion.”
ReplyDeletethis is a big sign to get back to the stranger love fields for me, thank you peter & thanks isa for being here
xo tla