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And yet, I must end my blog with Irony. For this entire article, which is pretty much bashing social media and to me, reflecting a very intelligent approach to a future that we will be laughing at, especially this world Zuckerberg has created for us to mingle with...
most likely the editor, still has to put all that shit at the top of the page.
Great ending to the article, especially the first paragraph
When I read something like that, I have a little argument with myself: “It’s only poor education. They feel the same way as anyone would, they just don’t have the language to express it.” But another part of me has a darker, more frightening thought. Do they genuinely believe, because the girl’s wall is still up, that she is still, in some sense, alive? What’s the difference, after all, if all your contact was virtual?
This is on the topic of sharing wall posts on a friends wall that has died with very interesting word choices, like "remember all da good timez LOL"
I haven't delved that deep into Social Networks, but that is a great point. It's very creepy thought and one that is truly something that makes me nervous for the future.
I also have been weirdly experiencing this after a girl died in my class in High School. Being from a small town, the emotional impact was just as strong, however every birthday of hers, I get weird facebook notifications and wall posts about it. It's like she is still here, but in a weird virtual way.
E Pluribus Unum—that’s the point. Here’s my guess: he wants to be like everybody else.
I agree 100%, but not only that, I think he wants to be remembered as much as he wants to be liked.
Yet a point for Smith with the next paragraph of how Zuckerberg flipped flop from being so against the movie, then to very publicly taking his whole office to see the movie. Why? Because everyone liked the movie, and the inventor of the "like" button can't not like something everyone else likes.
#FOMO
Will anyone ever get this message?
In Lanier’s view, there is no perfect computer analogue for what we call a “person.” In life, we all profess to know this, but when we get online it becomes easy to forget. In Facebook, as it is with other online social networks, life is turned into a database, and this is a degradation, Lanier argues, which is based on [a] philosophical mistake…the belief that computers can presently represent human thought or human relationships. These are things computers cannot currently do.
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Or maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous.
...with the (unintended?) consequence that your Aunt Dora could suddenly find out you joined the group Queer Nation last Tuesday. Gay kids became un-gay, partiers took down their party photos, political firebrands put out their fires. In real life we can be all these people on our own terms, in our own way, with whom we choose. For a revealing moment Facebook forgot that. Or else got bored of waiting for us to change in the ways it’s betting we will."
That a lot of social networking software explicitly encourages people to make weak, superficial connections with each other (as Malcolm Gladwell has recently argued1), and that this might not be an entirely positive thing, seem to never have occurred to him.
Great quote
They’ve spent a decade being berated for not making the right sorts of paintings or novels or music or politics. Turns out the brightest 2.0 kids have been doing something else extraordinary. They’ve been making a world.
"Making a world"
Fincher’s contemporary window-dressing is so convincing that it wasn’t until this very last scene that I realized the obvious progenitor of this wildly enjoyable, wildly inaccurate biopic. Hollywood still believes that behind every mogul there’s an idée fixe: Rosebud—meet Erica.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/
“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?… A billion dollars.” Over cocktails in a glamorous nightclub, Parker dazzles Zuckerberg with tales of the life that awaits him on the other side of a billion. Fincher keeps the thumping Euro house music turned up to exactly the level it would be in real life: the actors have to practically scream to be heard above it. Like many a nerd before him, Zuckerberg is too hyped on the idea that he’s in heaven to notice he’s in hell.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/
Great analysis of the scene
Anyway, the twins lose the regatta, too, by a nose, which allows Fincher to justify the scene by thematic reiteration: sometimes very close is simply not close enough. Or as Mark pleasantly puts it across a conference table: “If you guys were the inventors of Facebook you’d have invented Facebook.”
One of my favorite lines of the movie, besides "Did I adequately answer your condescending question?"
An extended four-minute shot has him doing exactly this all the way through the Harvard campus, before he lands finally where he belongs, the only place he’s truly comfortable, in front of his laptop, with his blog: "Erica Albright’s a bitch. You think that’s because her family changed their name from Albrecht or do you think it’s because all B.U. girls are bitches?"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/
The first Facebook post, searching for "Likes" that will never come
Don’t we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/
To finish my Tumblr, I've decided to pull out my favorite quotes from the Zadie Smith review of The Social Network as I live read it. Instead of live tweeting it's live Tumbling. <-- Irony for a reason if you've followed my blog.
The inspiration for this blog and I feel a fitting and very scholarly review of the movie, which I consider the movie of "our" generation. "Our" in this context meaning everyone growing up/have become accustomed to Social Media at a young age.
Before I go into reading however, here is my review of the movie I did for Ethos magazine.
http://ethosmagonline.com/archives/7140
