Archive for October 26, 2009
Wired Magazine
Wired magazine has a whole plethora of excellent articles on social rules regarding facebook, twitter, digg, etc. etc. A really great expose on the pervasive role of technology in our lives.
Survey on When People Twitter/Facebook
The infographic speaks for itself; it states how many people twitter/facebook during any given activity:
Facebooking While Driving
Moving onto the technology side of things, a study found that 1 in 10 British people have updated their twitter or facebook while driving. Phones with internet access like iphones contribute to this phenomenon and increased danger.
Here’s the link: British Drivers Tweet and Update Facebook While Driving, Study Says
We Wear the Mask
We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
-Paul Lawrence Dunbar
(just thought I’d start adding literary/imagery that relates to my category)
Self-representation on facebook
I just read a thesis “Self Representation on Facebook” by Zazan Zarghooni that details the psychology behind how people represent themselves on social networking sites.
In real life, people have a front stage, and a backstage. A front stage is the public eye, and the performance of the individual on that stage varies for the audience; a teacher may act as a form of authority in school, but completely differently at a family reunion. A backstage is what only the person and perhaps their closest friends/ co-performers see. Facebook maintains these barriers, with public walls, and private messages, allowing for distinguishing different levels of self-representation/ disguises.
Facebook is certainly based in showing an ideal or positive side of one’s self, which relates to social posturing and a sense of popularity through the reception of things like ‘gifts’, hugs, kisses, comments, etc.
Lastly, the thesis states that social networking sites may actually also aid less-social individuals, because the immediacy of direct interaction is removed, and there is less pressure on the individual to behave or react a certain way to actual stimuli.
Selfpresentation_on_Facebook
-Emmi
an analysis of myspace member profiles
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/papers/MySpace_preprint.doc
gender differences in SNSs
it’s from wikipedia but still interesting
connects with the previous article
