Second shadow: your personal information on display wherever you go. (Image from a survey conducted by Matthias Böhmer.)
People say we are self-involved (and who are we to disagree?)
Critics of social media have been lamenting about its narcissistic and self-referential nature. Blogging and micro-blogging is considered to be nothing more than a time consuming, data intensive exercise in self-broadcasting. The medium can be employed for a variety of different purposes (in the way Twitter was recently used by protesters in the Iranian elections), but for the majority of users it is still a channel to tell the world that you are stuck in traffic / watching re-runs of Prison Break / at some franchised coffee bar having the most fabulous latte known to man. Stephen Fry tweeted tonight:
“I have been most remiss, tweetwise. Apologies. Thissing and thatting, whiching and whatting – a walk here, a lunch there and now a dinner.”
Everyone’s at it.
Filed under: Social Media, Facebook, LinekdIn, Myspace, Twitter
