Multi Modal-I'm So Totally Digitally Close To You

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html

" They call it 'Ambient awareness.' It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through little things he does- body language, sighs, stray comments-out of the corner of your eye." This article was INSANE to me. Not only was it interesting to read just how the website of Facebook was created, but it was interesting to just read and look how severely a site like this really impacts the lives of millions around the world. I admit that I get on Facebook probably once or twice a day. However, to be obsessed with knowing everything and anything about your friends is too much for me. He mentions "News Feeds" which is an application on the site, but they were solely made to make it easier to "creep" on people.

About the topic of Twitter, I will stand by my previous post about disliking the entire concept. Twitter is just a site for people to constantly tell us what they are doing. I don't care if you are "bored at work" and five minutes later you are "still bored at work." Yes, Facebook has the whole "Status" set, but most people update that MAYBE once a day. I might do it once a week. Plus, Facebook only really interests me so I can keep in contact with my friends who I don't get to go to school with, or whom I have fallen out of contact with.

These days I do worry about some of the content that may be on my Facebook. I admit that I have had to clean up some of my pictures and comments. Not because I was doing anything illegal, but because how I act and what I say to my friends is completely different than how I will want to be viewed by a potential employer. I fear that daily many people don't stop and think about that, and unfortunately it will come back to haunt them.