How impersonally personal are we these days?

No,not at all.I have a FB account and occasionally go there but do not post anything about what I do publicly.
There are people there who post about being in line at the grocery store.I want to beat them with a frozen cod.
As for the games on there like Farmville,etc…I would rather stick pins in my eyes.
As for photos,I generally like to see them but after the first 145 badly lit,badly composed snapshots I get bored and will nod off.
So that is my rant for today. :)

Fifteen minutes of fame. In the last couple of decades, more and more people have tried to get on TV. In order to do so, they had to be willing to talk about shameful things mostly. The show could then stage dramatic confrontations. Create lots of real drama.

I think this culture of sharing everything has been slowly spreading. Those of us who are older mostly look at it with dismay. We can’t hardly imagine anyone doing that. But younger folks—30 and under—grew up thinking this kind of thing is normal.

So Facebook comes along, and people have a very different notion of privacy. They want to show off. They love it when people read about every hour of their lives. They show off their pictures and private situations to all their friends, and maybe friends of friends and maybe everyone.

I think part of it is that people want to be famous, and the internet gives them the chance to do something stupid or smart or just plain crazy, and maybe the video will go viral and they’ll get some kind of contract.

Impersonally personal. Interesting way to put it. People are displaying their lives everywhere—sitting in a glass window on the main drag hoping to get attention. They don’t care who from (except no creepers… or maybe even creepers are ok), they just want the attention and maybe fame. So they display their personal lives in an impersonal way.

I just blew my nose! :-/

it’s-not pretty…......

@noelleptc Thank you! It made my cramps go away! :)

I think I looked at facebook once and didn’t like it just for that reason. It seems totally impersonal.

I hate Facebook for that very reason. I have mostly relatives on mine (which I enjoy talking to and sharing things with) and a few friend/acquaintences that I rarely see, who friended me and I didn’t want to offend them by telling them that I really only wanted family members on there. For my “real” and close friends, I either use the phone or e-mail them or visit them directly. I use the privacy blocking alot and I rarely post anything. If I do post anything, it’s most often only for my family to see.

I don’t like fake, inter-personal connections, and it totally creeps me out that people collect “friends” on their accounts so that it looks like they’re popular.

@noelleptc That’s so funny! I don’t even know that many people even if I counted every person I’ve ever known as a friend or relative or a co-worker or a mere acquaintence! I consider myself to be a very social person, but to me, facebook is the opposite of being social.

Every person I friend on facebook is a person I know personally, either through real life or corresponding with them. It is a circus. But I like being able to show people links and articles and having them respond. It’s a little like Fluther to me.

I signed up for Facebook mainly to keep in touch with friends and relatives, and to re-connect with old friends. All people I knew in ‘real life’. However, once I became open to connecting with online friends (jellies) through FB, a whole new dynamic took shape. I now have more ‘virtual’ friends on FB than ‘real life’ friends! I was a little leery at first, but it’s been really interesting getting to know people outside of Fluther, and I’m glad I did it. It kind of expands my Monkeysphere, you know?

I don’t play any games, don’t poke people or anything like that, but I’m in regular contact with tons of people. We support each other in many ways. That said, I’m not a very private person… I’m pretty much an open book. I’m also the kind of person who talks to strangers at the grocery store. That may be why I don’t find it unsettling.

It is my belief that some people who went to school with you for example and who post all their academic achievements for example just want to show-off on facebook!
See, I went to harvard, or Yale or I have this amazing job in Europe and this and that. Besides the silly: I’m bored, or I’m playing farmville, or I’m counting my toenails.
This state of society is going to utterly destroy meaninful interpersonal relationships for even people that you are “friends” with in FB in real life peorhaps you wouldn’t have anything in common AT ALL!
I prefer to read a good book, or listen to some great music or talk to a real person instead of wasting my life in this stupid thing.

Well I can’t see you or talk to you, just typing right?