Brain Dump Post (05.12.16)
title: “Idk, Random Research Idea”
originally recorded @ May 12, 2016, late afternoon.
category/categories:
scrapped social media post, deleted fb post, feminist rant
(i.e. was going to be FB post, but then scrapped and dumped in notes)
status: needs -major- editing/revising if going to be final product in future
“Considering making a "closed" page (or whatever) where I post funny shit found on Tumblr (original posts), wait for that same shit to start popping up all over Facebook, and then compare the timelines. Follow up by doing the same with Twitter and Reddit. Maybe branch out into studying the effects and disbursement of quicksnap/side platforms, like Snapchat and Vine. If it stays interesting, maybe a more anthropological style of study between social and capitalist venues (LinkedIn, Google+, SlideShare etc).
I don't know why exactly, but I'm terribly curious about the patterns, timelines, differences/similarities, human behavior, language impressions, affecting factors (and etc, etc) of various internet material and the various platforms we seem to navigate the internet from; i.e. social media, networks, memes, viral videos, quickspans, forums, and so on. There's been few studies published on the subject and none that I've found so far go into any real depth. Even more disappointing, their methods of study and comparison were mostly shallow, trivial, based on impressions rather than facts, etc. I have a feeling all the actual studies are under lock and key in Marketing departments and so on.
Ugh. Where are all the decent scientists? Oh, right. Probably working on important things like medicine, disease, space, and robots. We need more unemployed, stoner, bored scientists.
It's just something I've found myself think about whenever I've got the chance to "just muse" on shit; So much of our lives are spent on the internet and/or immersed in technology and technological devices, but the general overview seems to present a rather scary lack of "real" knowledge on any of it? I mean, I know there are people who have knowledge and experience concerning the intricacies of the whole "giant world of technology" and such, but it doesn't seem to be "common" knowledge. If that makes sense. Basically, unless I'm talking to CIS/MECT/etc professors and experts, most of the people I've come across in the Technology college areas of my school know squat. The ITAC Network Head Assistant didn't know about the cables where are internet comes from. I was joking about the sharks trying to eat our Internet and ended up having to explain how the whole thing actually works. Yeah. That was disconcerting.
Anyways, I don't know. This is probably just coming from an inner obsession to catalog and understand everything, maybe also a bit of inner geekynerdness, and most likely coming from all the sleep deprivation in my life. Still sounds like an interesting project, tho. I'll put it on the list to "delve into further later".
