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 Member 4367 Level 10.22 Mar 2006 
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Personally, I thought it was a disappointing cop out. Maybe I just didn’t agree that the cross section of people they interviewed actually influenced anyone, or rather I couldn’t relate that kind of behaviour to anyone I knew. Maybe the technologies that they described were more about being directed to get one’s 15 minutes of fame rather than being influential forces for change.
I think it was reading the article about Tila Nguyen’s emailing of 30,000+ people to join her myspace which made me think that this is all rather egotistical or just another outlet for self promotion and crass exhibitionism. Seriously, who the hell else behaves like this other than total exhibitionists or spammers? It made me cringe. Then there’s the underlying issue of the accumulation of “friends” as a commodity. I’m cynical of a process where someone can suddenly be determined to be a “friend” by an action as simple as a mouse click… but that’s another topic entirely. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Pez