(the social realm)
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Online social status or social network relations are a unspoken yet predetermined cloud that hangs over many person to person real life conversations we have. It's that pink elephant in the room or the conversation that is sometimes often mentioned and discussed. Almost a alternate social realm that exists only in the confines of the Internet-- and with our granted ability to think about our response before posting or commenting we essentially can create whatever witty/assholeish/kind/thoughtful character we choose to represent our self.
Or basically we have the power to to think before we speak type.
If you have put something on the Internet, it is out there...simple. Anything you have ever posted, any pictures, anything you've said...it's there. You can't have privacy and share at the same time, although many would like to think this concept exists.
Every single picture or comment posted can be directly linked to another picture or comment posted which can then be linked directly to another picture or comment on a picture that is tagged with someones picture who commented on another photo that is linked directly to hundreds more who have commented or posted recently.
The simple fact is that we all know what we are all doing. No more mystery or aura, no SPECULATION, only pre conceived ideas of a person -- or a image we have shaped of this person through their social networking or lack their of.
Remember when people started using the fuck out of cell phones? yeah me too. Overuse to the fullest, answering every call. Same applies to social networking. Don't get me wrong, we now more than ever have the ability to say something and have it reach thousands millions. What are you saying though?
The sudden realization that quite possibly you are being used by something much bigger than you... this is the tip of the iceberg.
This isn't just about facebook,twitter,myspace and farmville...
I'm not going any deeper on a tumblr blog ;)
-t
