1 post tagged “culture of the net”

This song seems to fit:

Allow myself to introduce...myself.

 

Actually, allow myself to bring up something that I have wanted to articulate for several months. Where do you draw the line with 'easy familiarity' when it comes to communicating through the internet? This includes Facebook, Flickr, emails, instant messaging, blogs, myspace, and all of the other wonderful services that enable us to stay connected.

There is a certain sense of anonymity, which may make it seem innocent, but I don't know that it is. In North America youth culture is being shaped so heavily by interactions over the internet. There is no precedent for a lot of what we're seeing, like recruiters looking through profiles on Facebook before deciding to hire and people posting pictures of others without their permission (which I just did below).

Maybe this is just developmental - characteristic of the stage of growth that mankind is at. A 'netiquette' is emerging, but when I look around it seems like there is a general lack of maturity in the way we use the internet as a society to communicate with each other - and the way the internet has been set up to enable this communication is reflective of our being at this stage of maturity. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing how we'll use it in the years to come!