The dawn of the social networking

This is a reply on my own blog to Stephens last post about habbernas,

Their are three main social networks that are dominant in my era. The first being face book. Pros and cons : 1.Easy way to get a hold of someone if you have a good Internet connection or Internet use at all.
2. you don't wanna physically carry on a conversation with someone. (while why are you communicating with them at all. to be nice? social rules society has placed on us?)
3. To have an online personality. this one is huge. Online personalities have opened up doors for the part of society that does not necessarily want to be seen or heard. They feel comfortable with the web forming as a mask for them to explore or exploit themselves. I looked up the definition for online idendentity was as followed :" The creation of online social networks like MySpace and Facebook, allows people to maintain an online identity within a overlapping online and real world context These are often identities created to reflect a specific aspect or best possible version of themselves. Representations include pictures, communications with other 'friends' and membership in-network groups. Privacy controls, especially limited to specific networks on Facebook, are also part of social networking identity."

so to agree with habernas yes online social networking is taking reality out of context.People are literally making up their own personality's or how they wish others to precive them. The thing is this is only for online users. what about every day people that you meet and communicate with. You get a distortion of reality.

however people can now present their own personality generaly without fear of being ridiculed, weather it be sexual orinentaion or traits, looks that they are curious about. the web of social networking allows you to speak to a varity of people about the subject your curious about annonymously. Same rules apply though you have to first shift though the bullshit.

The book "building virtual communities" is about exploring online identity. The authors put presure on the concept of the "mask" that was mentioned abouve. It is said that "They point out that whenever an individual interacts in a social sphere they portray a mask of their identity. This is no different online and in fact becomes even more pronounced due to the decisions an online contributor must make concerning his or her online profile. He or she must answer specific questions about age, gender, address, username and so forth. Furthermore, as a person publishes to the web he or she adds more and more to his or her mask in the style of writing, vocabulary and topics." this leads into what ted was saying about how they get all this information out of you without you even realizing it.

after reciving all the information about you it then opens up doors for consumerisim. YEAH!!!!! thier is now junk text mail. which is junk mail in text message form. I bet Mr. Bell is turning over in his grave.