Binary Perspectives

Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Everyone’s a star. Our perfect lives are now on display for all to see, envy and comment upon. There now exists one more place where you can be, what you want the rest of your friends (if only tenuous) to think you are . Some of us have it down to perfection while we portray the perfect jerk, achiever, party hopper or all round ‘chill’ guy or gal. Why doesn’t everyone have to know what exactly we are doing or thinking?

The facebook phenomenon is in step with the general trend where voyeurism is an indispensable part of the average persons lifestyle. Reality shows, personal blogs, twitter feeds, facebook profile investigations etc., make us all part of this trend, with varying levels of participation. Ranging from smug observers to narcissistic participants…we each have our own reasons to be involved. Updates about our kids to the colour of our underwear…its all on facebook. Obviously then, it’s also nice to be able to control what others see or know about us. Given our modest and private dispositions, we have developed our own set of rules on how we communicate online, about the things that matter to us. Here are a few examples;

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